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What Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White share in common, The Mary Tyler Moore Show

What actresses come to mind that worked together decades ago and now again in present day?  If you think of others, tell us.

Well if you guessed the two names in the title above you are right.  We know Betty White from HOT in Cleveland, among a zillion other shows, and now we learn more about Mary Tyler Moore, actress and dancer.

Mary Tyler Moore's acting background primarily comes from her roles in television sitcoms, one of those most recently was HOT in Cleveland.  It aired January 19, 2011.

Moore, on HOT in Cleveland, worked with all cast members, but one of them, Betty White, she had not worked with since the 1970s on The Mary Tyler Moore Show!

Best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), in which Moore starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis. 

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Moore is also known for her earlier role as Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke's wife) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66).

In addition, Moore has appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed. For this role she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Deborah Smith Ford is an actress in the film and television industry, a celebrity lookalike/tribute artist and author of the children's book, The Little Apple - more books and films to follow!

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