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70s style icon Mary Tyler Moore has passed

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Vintage Chatter - Anything and everything' started by Jonathan, Jan 25, 2017.

  1. Jonathan

    Jonathan VFG Member

    LOVED her looks on the Dick Van Dyke and MTM show... images-2.jpeg closet-Mary-Tyler-Moore-Show-apartment-hannahandhusband.jpg mary_tyler_moore_00001282.jpg

    images.jpeg The GREEN dress show is HILARIOUS

     
  2. northstarvintage

    northstarvintage Administrator Staff Member

    So sad! She was such an icon to me growing up.

    Wasn't she one of the first women to wear pants on TV?
     
  3. denisebrain

    denisebrain VFG Vice President Staff Member VFG Past President

    :no:

    My favorite moment in television history:
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  4. Jonathan

    Jonathan VFG Member

    I don't know if she was one of the first but I remember reading there was a fight about her wardrobe on the Dick Van Dyke show because they wanted her to dress like Harriet Nelson in full housedresses and she refused. She said that is not how real mothers dressed. I think she was right because my mom lived in Capris or shorts at home, but she would change into a straight skirt suit or dress to go out - sometimes even for grocery shopping!
     
  5. Rue_de_la_Paix

    Rue_de_la_Paix VFG Member

    She was a wonderful dancer and a very good actress too. My mom and I always loved her in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" even though the movie itself was not so great. And who can forget her great performance in "Ordinary People"?

    And on the Dick Van Dyke show she sure could rock those slacks!

    I actually teared up a little hearing the news this morning.
     
  6. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

    So sorry to hear this news. She certainly made us smile!
     
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  7. Rue_de_la_Paix

    Rue_de_la_Paix VFG Member

    Probably she is remembered for wearing them indeed, and looking the best in them too. But lets not forget Lucille Ball who wore them on her TV show regularly.

    My boyfriend always comments on her looking so great in pants when we watch those old TV shows. I say "yes, I KNOW". Tee hee.

    Jonathan, I love that story about Mary insisting that real housewives wore slacks and capris at home. Good for her!
     
  8. peaceful vintage

    peaceful vintage Administrator VFG Past President

    She was wonderful, very pretty, and funny.

    I find her passing quite timely with the women's rights movement that is going on right now in the US.
     
  9. So sad. I loved her in the Mary Tyler Moore show, but I wanted to be Rhoda.
    Have they said what her illness was?
    She will live in our hearts forever
     
  10. Jonathan

    Jonathan VFG Member

    She was a type 1 diabetic since her 20s but it was a heart attack that actually killed her.
     
  11. cmpollack

    cmpollack VFG Member

    So sad that she has passed...

    My favorite (recent-ish) memory is of her cameo appearance as a hardened, orange-jumpsuit-wearing, harmonica-playing jailbird on "Hot in Cleveland".

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