Dorothy McGuire

McGuire has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd. In 2001, cable TV network TV Land dedicated and erected a statue to the television character she made famous on The Mary Tyler Moore Show near the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. She appeared in such other movies as Three Coins in the Fountain, Friendly Persuasion, Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, Summer Magic and The Greatest Story Ever Told. Moore suffers from this illness. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1947 for Gentleman's Agreement. In this role, she has used her fame to help raise funds and raise awareness of diabetes mellitus type 1. By 1943, at the age of 27, she was already playing mother roles, in such movies as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. In addition to her acting work, Moore is International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.

Her first film was Claudia, in which she played the character she had originated on Broadway, that of a child bride who almost destroys her marriage through her selfishness. More recently she portrayed Sante Kimes in the made-for-TV Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001). Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she began her career on the stage. She has starred in several films, including Ordinary People in which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 - September 13, 2001) was an American actress. Her first important television role in which gained wide recognition was as Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Her first regular television role was on the show Richard Diamond, Private Detective; however, in that show, only her legs were ever shown.

During these commercials she would dance around on the kitchen appliances. At the age of 17, she started off with a role as Happy Hotpoint, on television commercials broadcast during Ozzie and Harriet. Moore was born in Brooklyn and grew up in California. Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis.