Mary Tyler Moore Presented With Lifetime Achievement Award At 2012 SAG Awards
After spending over 4 decades in the entertainment industry, Mary Tyler Moore was presented with the lifetime achievement award at the 2012 SAG Awards. The 75 year old actress got her big break playing Mary Richards in the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. When former co-star Dick Van Dyke went up to introduce her, he said “MTM. There’s probably not a person in the civilized world who doesn’t know what that means.”
The two legends spent time working together on the 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show. He noted Moore’s achievements as an Oscar-nominated actress, a dancer and a Hollywood executive whose MTM Enterprises has produced several other hit TV shows. Moore also told a story about how she almost didn’t make it because there were already six other Mary Moore’s in the Screen Actors Guild, so she was told to change her name.
Thinking quick on her feet, she added the name Tyler to her SAG application, the middle name of both her and her father, George. “I was Mary Tyler Moore. I spoke it out loud. Mary Tyler Moore. It sounded right so I wrote it down on the form, and it looked right,” she said. “It was right. SAG was happy, my father was happy, and tonight, after having the privilege of working in this business among the most creative and talented people imaginable, I too am happy, after all.”
Mary definitely deserved this award, so congratulations to her for this monumental achievement.
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