Being Mary Tyler Moore

Chronicling the beloved actresses life, loves and legacy, Being Mary Tyler Moore takes us from her introduction to television audiences as the pixie, Happy Hotpoint through her groundbreaking characters that gave women around the world spunk as well. Moore burst onto the scene when women were still depicted as homemakers on the tube. To paraphrase Gloria Steinem, if aliens watched American television they’d think women were servants, sex crazed and man junkies. Mary Tyler Moore changed all that, She believed women were human beings first, wives and mothers second.