Mary Tyler Moore who played Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Mary was born in 1936 in Brooklyn Heights, New York.  When she was young, she aspired to be a dancer and appeared as a dancing elf and an appliance in a series of 1950's Hotpoint commercials. She also appeared as a dancer in "The Eddie Fisher Show" (1957) and "Once Upon a Horse".  She landed her first steady role on a TV series in "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" in 1959.  However, all that