{"id":87,"date":"2011-09-09T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T07:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T07:53:58","slug":"transmissions-mary-tyler-moore-honored-with-2011-screen-actors-guild-life-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Mary Tyler Moore Honored With 2011 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (September 8, 2011) \u2013 Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian\"\"<\/a> Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)\u2019s most prestigious accolade \u2013 the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n

Moore will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the \u201cfinest ideals of the acting profession,\u201d at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards\u00ae, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT and 5 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n

In making today\u2019s announcement, Screen Actors Guild National President Ken Howard said, \u201cMary Tyler Moore won our hearts as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, our respect as her production company became synonymous with quality television, our awe as she tackled difficult subject matter in film and on Broadway, and our admiration she turned her public recognition into a catalyst to draw attention to critical and deeply personal health and social issues. She truly embodies the spirit behind SAG\u2019s Life Achievement Award, and we are honored to proclaim her as its 48th recipient.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Holder of seven Emmys\u00ae, a Tony\u00ae and an Academy Award\u00ae nomination, among numerous industry and philanthropic accolades, Mary Tyler Moore first rose to prominence when she was cast at 23 as Dick Van Dyke\u2019s wife in his eponymous sitcom, based loosely on the experiences of comedy writer Carl Reiner. Smart, feisty and down-to-earth in capri pants and fashionable tops, Moore\u2019s Laura Petrie was new kind of television wife and mother. The audiences loved her and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded her two Emmys and a nomination during the show\u2019s five-year run.<\/p>\n

Following \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show\u2019s\u201d successful run, Moore combined her acting, singing and dancing talents in 1967 as Julie Andrew\u2019s co-star in the 1920\u2019s film musical \u201cThoroughly Modern Millie.\u201d She was Elvis Presley\u2019s final leading lady in 1969\u2019s \u201cChange of Habit\u201d and the same year made her television movie debut in the drama \u201cRun A Crooked Mile.\u201d<\/p>\n

When CBS beckoned with the offer to develop her own television series, Moore formed a production company, MTM, with her then husband Grant Tinker. Their groundbreaking comedy \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show\u201d premiered on September 19, 1970. While other comedies had been set in the workplace, Moore\u2019s chronicled the career, friendships and dating life of a single, thirtyish, spunky, independent, career woman, in the unseen world of local TV news. With a brilliant cast, the character-driven series redefined the meaning of ensemble comedy and of family. In its seven-year run garnered 29 Emmys, including four for its star. Nearly 25 years later Moore was present as TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis depicting the iconic moment in the show\u2019s opening credit\u2019s when a hopeful Mary Richards tosses her hat in the air.<\/p>\n

Moore and Tinker\u2019s MTM Enterprises continued to produce an impressive list of landmark comedies and dramas including \u201cThe Bob Newhart Show\u201d, \u201cNewhart, \u201cWKRP\"\"<\/a> in Cincinnati,\u201d \u201cHill Street Blues\u201d \u201cThe White Shadow\u201d (starring current SAG president Ken Howard) and \u201cSt. Elsewhere,\u201d Characters from \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show\u201d became the focus for several successful spin-offs in the 1970s: \u201cRhoda,\u201d starring Valerie Harper; \u201cPhyllis,\u201d starring Cloris Leachman; and \u201cLou Grant,\u201d starring Ed Asner (SAG\u2019s 38th Life Achievement recipient), which significantly took Asner\u2019s gruff but soft-hearted journalist from TV newsroom comedy into a hard-hitting newspaper-set drama.<\/p>\n

Moore showcased her dramatic talent in her Emmy-nominated depiction of TV correspondent Betty Rollin\u2019s battle with breast cancer in the 1978 CBS telefilm \u201cFirst You Cry.\u201d In 1980 Moore was nominated for an Oscar\u00ae for her riveting portrayal of Beth Jarrett, a bitter mother coping with the death of one son and the attempted suicide of another in the Robert Redford-directed drama \u201cOrdinary People.\u201d The same year she continued to explore painful subject matter onstage in the hit Broadway play “Whose Life Is It, Anyway?” which earned her a Tony for playing a quadriplegic sculptor fighting to determine her own destiny, a role originated by Tom Conti and rewritten for its female star in her Broadway debut.<\/p>\n

Other feature films include: \u201cSix Weeks,\u201d opposite Dudley Moore; David O, Russell\u2019s \u201cFlirting with Disaster\u201d; and Peter Calahan’s dark comedy Against The Current, opposite Joseph Fiennes and Justin Kirk, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s success in telefilms has continued across decades: In 1984, she delivered an Emmy-nominated performance in the ABC television movie “Heartsounds” opposite James Garner (SAG\u2019s 41st Life Achievement recipient),; received a Cable Ace nomination for HBO\u2019s \u201cFinnegan Begin Again\u201d opposite Robert Preston and Sam Waterson; delivered a stunning portrayal of disturbed first lady Mary Todd Lincoln in the 1988 NBC miniseries \u201cGore Vidal\u2019s Lincoln;\u201d and won her seventh Emmy in 1993 for her performance as a spinster trafficking in illegal adoption in Lifetime\u2019s \u201cStolen Babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other telefilm credits include TNT\u2019s “Miss Lettie and Me” and the CBS television films “Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes”; \u201cSnow Wonder\u201d; and “Blessings” based on the Anna Quindlan novel. She and Dick Van Dyke showcased their old spark in a PBS version of D. L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nursing home-set stage play “The Gin Game,” then reunited with a large number of their former cast mates in TV Land\u2019s nostalgic \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s television guest roles include: a recurring run as Tea Leoni’s mother “The Naked Truth,\u201d an appearance as Ellen DeGeneres\u2019s Aunt Mary in a Christmas episode of \u201cEllen,\u201d a recurring stint as a high-strung TV host on \u201cThat 70\u2019s Show\u201d and a multi-episode arc in NBC\u2019s \u201cLipstick Jungle.\u201d This year, on the season premiere of \u201cHot in Cleveland,\u201d Moore reunited onscreen with Betty White for the first time since \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u201d sharing a jail cell with White\u2019s character, Elka, who was arrested in the season one cliffhanger.
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\nMoore returned to the stage in 1987 to star opposite Lynn Redgrave in A. R. Gurney Jr.\u2019s \u201cSweet Sue\u201d and has performed numerous benefit readings of Gurney\u2019s two-person \u201cLove Letters,\u201d starring opposite James Earl Jones to benefit, the Poughkeepsie Day School, Patrick Stewart to benefit the Ethical Culture School and Gene Wilder for the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center Association, as well as opposite Gurney himself.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s first autobiography, \u201cAfter All,\u201d published in 1995, was a frank exploration of her childhood, personal challenges and career. Her second book, \u201cGrowing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes\u201d is a candid, humorous and illuminating detailing of her battles with the disease since she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (then called \u201cjuvenile diabetes\u201d for its prevalence among children) in 1970 at age 33. The book includes conversations with remarkable people who live with the disease and those who work on the frontiers of medical research. Moore donated all her profits from \u201cGrowing Up Again\u201d to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the world\u2019s leading funder and advocate for Type 1 diabetes science.<\/p>\n

Moore has been JDRF\u2019s International Chairman since 1984. She has also chaired JDRF\u2019s biennial Children\u2019s Congress since its inception in 1999, leading up to 200 children with Type 1 diabetes to Washington, D.C. to meet face-to-face with congressional \"\"<\/a>representatives. Moore has been at the vanguard of JDRF\u2019s visit on Capitol Hill, testifying before the House and Senate on behalf of increased National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for Type 1 diabetes, which affects as many as 3 million children and adults. Moore and her husband, Dr. S Robert Levine, have been generous supporters of JDRF\u2019s research programs and in 2003 established JDRF\u2019s \u201cExcellence in Clinical Research Award\u201d in recognition of outstanding diabetes researchers. She herself was honored by JDRF in 2007 with its Humanitarian of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

Among many other accolades, Moore received the 1984 Women in Film Crystal Award, was immortalized in 1992 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was presented with the American Screenwriters Association first David Angell Humanitarian Award in 2002 and in 2009 was honored with the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award.<\/p>\n

Moore co-founded Broadway Barks with Bernadette Peters in 1999. The annual event held in Broadway\u2019s Shubert Alley promotes the adoption of shelter animals, seeks to end euthanasia of dogs and cats in New York City and fosters a spirit of community among the number shelters and rescue groups working throughout the city. New York Major Michael Bloomberg proclaimed this year\u2019s July 9, 2011, event as \u201cBroadway Barks Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn-born daughter of George Tyler Moore and Marjorie Hackett, Moore, Moore had moved with her family to California at 8 and aspired to be a dancer. After graduating Immaculate Heart High School, she broke into commercials, then gained acting credentials in television, first as the only partially-glimpsed switchboard operator on \u201cRichard Diamond, Private Eye\u201d and in guest roles in more than a dozen popular series, such as \u201cHawaiian Eye,\u201d \u201c77 Sunset Strip,\u201d and \u201cWanted: Dead or Alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember to tune into the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards\u00ae, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT and 5 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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