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===Films=== Moore made her film debut as a nurse in the [[Jack Lemmon]] comedy ''[[Operation Mad Ball]]'' (1957).<ref name="plex.tv/operation-mad-ball">{{cite web |title=Operation Mad Ball (1957) |url=https://watch.plex.tv/movie/operation-mad-ball |website=plex.tv |access-date=August 14, 2023 |language=en |date=August 17, 1957}}</ref><ref name="virtual-history/3509">{{cite web |title=Mary Tyler Moore |url=https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/3509/mary-tyler-moore |website=virtual-history.com |access-date=August 14, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Her first speaking part came in ''[[X-15 (film)|X-15]]'' (1961).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1109x15.html|title = DVD Savant Review: X-15}}</ref> Following her success on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', she appeared in a string of films in the late 1960s (after signing an exclusive contract with [[Universal Pictures]]), including ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' (1967), as a would-be actress in 1920s New York who is taken under the wing of [[Julie Andrews]]' title character, and two comedic films released in 1968, ''[[What's So Bad About Feeling Good?]]'' with [[George Peppard]], and ''[[Don't Just Stand There!]]'' with [[Robert Wagner]]. She starred opposite [[Elvis Presley]] as a nun in ''[[Change of Habit]]'' (1969).<ref>{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Tim|title=No 'Ordinary' life: Highlights from the career of Mary Tyler Moore|url=http://startribune.com/no-ordinary-life-highlights-from-the-career-of-mary-tyler-moore/411802516|access-date=January 26, 2017|work=Minneapolis Star-Tribune|date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> Moore's future television castmate [[Ed Asner]] appeared in the film as a police officer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Daniel|first=Douglass K.|title=Lou Grant: The Making of Tv's Top Newspaper Drama|date=1996|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=9780815626756|page=21 |url=https://archive.org/details/lougrantmakingof0000dani/ |url-access=registration |lccn=95-20141}}</ref> <!--About them, Moore was asked which one was most her type? "I think maybe Elvis, because he went so against the grain", she said.<ref>Sessuma, Kevin (March 22, 2009). "Laughter Is a Gift". ''[[Parsade (magazine)|Parade]]''. p. 18.</ref>--> Moore returned to the big screen in the coming-of-age drama ''[[Ordinary People]]'' (1980). She received an [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Oscar]] nomination for her portrayal of a grieving mother trying to cope with the drowning death of a son and the suicide attempt of another son (played by [[Timothy Hutton]] who won the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his performance).<ref name=RStoneSeriously/><ref>[http://www.moviefanfare.com/ordinary-people-with-extraordinary-issues/ Ordinary People with Extraordinary Issues] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011193034/http://www.moviefanfare.com/ordinary-people-with-extraordinary-issues/ |date=October 11, 2015 }}, MovieFanfare.com, July 18, 2012.</ref> Moore appeared in only two more films during the next fifteen years: ''[[Six Weeks]]'' (1982)<ref>{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |date=December 17, 1982 |title=Six Weeks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/17/movies/six-weeks.html |url-access=limited |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> and ''[[Just Between Friends]]'' (1986).<ref>{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=March 21, 1986 |title=Screen: 'Between Friends' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/21/movies/screen-between-friends.html |url-access=limited |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> She appeared in the independent hit ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]'' (1996).<ref>{{cite news|title=#RIP Mary Tyler Moore: Director David O. Russell remembers her 'electric' performance in 'Flirting With Disaster'|url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2017/01/25/54648/rip-mary-tyler-moore-director-david-o-russell-reme/|access-date=January 26, 2017|work=KPCC|date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> Moore was in the television movie ''[[Run a Crooked Mile]]'' (1969) and starred in several television movies including ''[[First, You Cry]]'' (1978), which brought her an [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|Emmy]] nomination for portraying NBC correspondent [[Betty Rollin]]'s struggle with breast cancer. Her later TV movies included the medical drama ''[[Heartsounds]]'' (1984) with [[James Garner]], which brought her another Emmy nomination, ''[[Finnegan Begin Again]]'' (1985) with [[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]], which earned her a [[CableACE Award]] nomination, the 1988 mini-series ''[[Lincoln (miniseries)|Lincoln]]'', which brought her another Emmy nomination for playing [[Mary Todd Lincoln]], and ''Stolen Babies'', for which she won an [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0345455428|page=1443}}</ref> Later she reunited with former co-stars in ''[[Mary and Rhoda]]'' (2000) with Valerie Harper, and ''The Gin Game'' (2003) (based on [[The Gin Game|the Broadway play]]), with Dick Van Dyke. Moore starred in ''Like Mother, Like Son'' (2001), playing convicted murderer [[Sante Kimes]].
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