NEW
YORK, NY – JULY 14: Mary Tyler Moore attends the Broadway Barks! 14 Pet
Adoption Event at Shubert Alley on July 14, 2012 in New York City.
Mary Tyler Moore, the girl “who could turn the world
on with her smile,” and an early pioneer of on-screen feminism, passed
away on Wednesday 25th of January at age 80 at a Connecticut hospital
after a long battle with diabetes.
Moore, who was born in 1936 in Brooklyn Heights, first rose to fame as a star of
The Dick Van Dyke Show, for which she won two Emmys and one Golden Globe.
She reportedly is the first woman to have worn trousers on television rather than a skirt.
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