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====''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (1961β1966)==== [[File:Dick Van Dyke Show main cast photo.jpg|thumb|right|240px|''[[Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' cast: [[Morey Amsterdam]], [[Richard Deacon (actor)|Richard Deacon]], Moore, [[Dick Van Dyke]] and [[Rose Marie]], 1962]] In 1961, [[Carl Reiner]] cast Moore in ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', a weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for [[Sid Caesar]]'s television variety show ''[[Your Show of Shows]]'', telling the cast from the outset that it would run for no more than five years. The show was produced by [[Danny Thomas]]' company, and Thomas himself recommended her. He remembered Moore as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier.<ref name=paley>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070301201915/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=43 Profile] the [[Paley Center for Media]]. Retrieved April 3, 2009.</ref> Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 (eleven years Van Dyke's junior), made both the actress and her signature fitted [[capri pants]] popular, and she became internationally known. When she won her first [[Emmy Award]] for her portrayal of Laura Petrie,<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|p=114}}</ref> she said, "I know this will never happen again."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/mary-tyler-moore-star-mary-tyler-moore-show/story?id=44534207 |title=Mary Tyler Moore, Star of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' Dies at 80 |last=Fisher |first=Lucina |date=January 25, 2017 |website=ABC News |access-date=January 26, 2017}}</ref> As Laura Petrie, Moore often wore styles that recalled the fashion of [[Jackie Kennedy]], such as capri pants, echoing an ideal of the Kennedy administration's [[John F. Kennedy#"Camelot Era"|Camelot]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Sixties Chronicles|first=David|last=Farber|page=153|publisher=Publications International Ltd.|isbn=141271009X|date=2004}}</ref>
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