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Mary Richards , played by Mary Tyler Moore, is the main character of the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show .
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Mary Richards, born in Roseburg, Minnesota in April 1939, was the only child of Walter and Dottie Richards. Before moving to Minneapolis, he was engaged to a medical student named Bill whom he left behind after realizing that he probably would never want to get married.
Upon arriving in Minneapolis, Mary rented an apartment in a house from her friend, Phyllis Lindstrom. Also renting out the attic loft from Phyllis is Rhoda Morgenstern, with whom Mary becomes a fast friend. Mary is also tied up with an adult Phyllis daughter, Bess.
Mary applied for secretarial work at the fictional TV station WJM-TV, the lowest-ranking station in the region. After meeting with news producer Lou Grant, he was informed that the position was filled but he was employed as a Partner Producer. Later, Mary was promoted to News Producer when Lou became the station's news director. While at WJM, he quickly became friends with news writer Murray Slaughter and a useless (and incompetent) newsreader, Ted Baxter. In the office, Mary often became the voice of reason. Lou, whom Mary used to call "Mr. Grant", then developed an adoration and almost-father relationship with Mary.
Mary's other friends include Sue Ann Nivens, host of The Happy Homemaker in WJM, and Georgette Franklin, who later married Ted.
In the final episode of the series, all newsroom staff lost their jobs in an effort to improve the rankings of the downhill. Ted, ironically, maintains his job, despite being a major cause for low ratings.
Mary Richards made several guest appearances in Rhoda spin-offs and Phyllis during a visit to New York or San Francisco, respectively, or in a scene over the phone. During one of his visits to San Francisco, he became friends with Phyllis's main enemy, "Mother Dexter". In the opening scene for Rhoda pilot, Mary Richards accompanies Rhoda to Minneapolis airport to drive her, but the scene is not shown in the US syndication, or in the Rhoda DVD release
As revealed in the film made for television 2000 Mary and Rhoda, after her departure from WJM-TV in Minneapolis as a news producer, Mary earned her master's degree in journalism and worked as a studio producer for ABC News in New York. She also married a congressman named Steven Cronin, with whom she had a daughter, Rose, around 1980. She worked until her daughter, Rose, was 12 years old and she decided to quit her job to spend more time at home.
After her husband's death in a rock climbing accident in 1999, Mary discovers that her husband wasted their money in a re-election campaign. At this time, Mary's daughter Rose is an English major at NYU. After spending time in Europe, Mary returned to New York City in 2000, and reconnected with her best friend Rhoda, who also returned to New York City after a temporary stay in Paris. Looking for more work for the first time in years, Mary was hired as a segment producer for WNYT in New York. There he worked under the founder of the station, Jonah Seimeier, who is less than half Mary.
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Creation
Mary Richards was originally meant to be a divorced widow. However, the divorce was still controversial at the time, and since CBS feared viewers might think that Mary had divorced Rob Petrie, Mary's fictional husband on The Dick Van Dyke Show (also aired on CBS), the premise was changed to a single woman with newly broken engagement. According to co-creator of the MTM Show, Allan Burns, Minnesota was elected to Mary's home after "one of the authors began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings." The television newsroom was chosen for Mary's workplace because support characters are often found there, says co-creator James Brooks.
Reception
Moore earned three Emmy Awards for her role as Mary. The Time magazine, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show as one of the seventeen shows that changed the television show, writes that â € Å"Moore made Mary the fully realized, iconic but wrong, competent. but it can be released... Mary is human and powerful enough to be laughed at and laughed at. "In 1992, Entertainment Weekly called her" the first great single working woman on TV ", and in 1999, > Entertainment Weekly rated her cap in the opening as the second biggest moment of television.In Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, she was ranked eighth, the highest position of the four characters Mary Tyler Moore Show in this list.
In 1999, TV Guide ranked number 21 on the '50 Greatest TV Character of All Time 'list.
In 2002, TV Land honored Mary Richards with a statue at Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. The statue depicts Mary throwing her tam into the air, with the same pose as seen in a frozen frame at the end of the opening credits.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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