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Actress with diabetes: Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman.She has also been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly diabetes and animal rights.
In 1955, aged 18, she married Dick Meeker, whom she described as "the boy next door", and was pregnant with her only son Richie. Meeker and Moore divorced in 1961
In 1980, Richard Meeker, Mary's only child, accidentally shot and killed himself when the hair trigger on his gun went off – that model gun was eventually removed from the market for that reason.
Moore has admitted having a drinking problem from the time she starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show until after marrying Levine. Her alcoholism peaked in the 1980s, and Moore entered the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment in 1984.
In addition to her acting work, Moore is the International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. In this role, she has used her fame to help raise funds and raise awareness of diabetes mellitus type 1, which she has, almost losing her vision and at least one limb to the disease.
Moore is a supporter of embryonic stem cell research and said of President George W. Bush's announcement to veto the Senate's bill supporting the research, "This is an intelligent human being with a heart, and I don't see how much longer he can deny those aspects of himself"
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She was America's darling: actress, producer
, star of the golden age of television. Her work on The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show garnered multiple Emmys, followed by critical acclaim for her acting on Broadway and in film.Now, in her witty, candid, heartbreaking autobiography
, Mary Tyler Moore tells all, about...the Dick Van Dyke nobody knows...Elvis, her sly, seductive co-star in Change of Habit...how Carl Reiner taught her to cry while being funny...Robert Redford's confession after casting her in Ordinary People...about then-First Lady Betty Ford's inebriated debut on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and years later, her phone call that saved Mary's life.Mary spares nothing as she recounts her traumatic childhood, two failed marriages, her own alcoholism, the tragic death of her son, and her third, happy marriage to a cardiologist eighteen years her junior. Moving, inspiring, and brutally frank, After All will touch every reader's heart and soul
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