# Mary Tyler Moore is ONLY 66?!?!?!?!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707 "2003-12-13T01:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/1 "2003-12-13T01:40:41Z")
[http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,11086,00.html](http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,11086,00.html) I was reading an article about her being booted from a recent Neil Simon play and it said “_the 66 year old Moore_”… I said, that has to be a typo she has to be like 90 or something. Low and behold she’s 66! I don’t know why I care, I just found that strange. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/2 "2003-12-13T01:42:15Z")
She’ll be [67](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001546/) in two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/3 "2003-12-13T02:34:14Z")
The Mary Tyler Moore show started in 1970, so that would be 30 years ago. She was supposed to be 30-ish in that series, so this is believable. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/4 "2003-12-13T02:35:25Z")
Yep, in the tradition of John and Jackie Kennedy, Laura Petrie was a dozen years younger than husband Rob. Such a cute couple. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/5 "2003-12-13T05:57:19Z")
I think that she was only about 10 years younger. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/6 "2003-12-13T15:12:16Z")
IMDb says you’re closer, **Joel**. Dick Van Dyke Date of birth 13 December 1925 Mary Tyler Moore Date of birth 29 December 1936 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/7 "2003-12-13T15:20:32Z")
Ah, so it’s 11 instead of 10, close enough. I just remember watching a show about **The Dick Van Dyke Show** saying that when it started, Dick was 30 and Mary was 20. I find it somewhat interesting too, that their birthdays are both in December. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/8 "2003-12-13T15:33:20Z")
I don’t understand why you guys all think MTM should be 105 years old, or whatever. She was still quite the young babe when _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ started in 1970. If she really were 90 she would have been in her late 40s when the Dick Van Dyke show was being made. Have you seen her in that? She looks like a teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/9 "2003-12-13T15:51:14Z")
[I think **WE** may be fooled by MTM’s extreme skinniness](http://www.celebrity-photos.com/mtmoore.jpg). It makes her look kind of skeletal and older than she is. [But she was a cutie back in her Dick Van Dyke days.](http://www.hissandpop.com/celebrities/m/marytylermoore/photos/012.jpg) [And not too shabby during her “Ohhhhh Mr. Grant!” days.](http://images.zap2it.com/ltvimages/images/shows/m/marytylermooreshow/marytylermooreshow_001.jpg) [Although this recent shot makes her look like she’s had some unflattering work done.](http://images.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/_photos/2001-07-09-moore.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/10 "2003-12-13T17:26:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joel \* > \*\*Ah, so it’s 11 instead of 10, close enough. I just remember watching a show about **The Dick Van Dyke Show** saying that when it started, Dick was 30 and Mary was 20. \*\* Nope, can’t be. There was a two-parter in which Rob and Laura had to get married again because she lied about her age and was 17 when they originally got married. SInce Ritchie was 6 when the show started, that would make her 24 (assuming they were playing by 1961 tv rules and didn’t sleep together until _after_ the wedding :D). Of course, it also appears to mean that Laura was a high school dropout who was hanging around army bases when she was still jailbait. Hmm, maybe tv was racier in those days than I thought! As for how gorgeous she was, remember that her first tv role was the answering service lady on Richard Diamond: Private Detective where the gimmick was that we never saw her face, just heard her sultry voice and saw her amazing legs. ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-is-only-66/218707/11 "2003-12-16T07:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\*Nope, can’t be. There was a two-parter in which Rob and Laura had to get married again because she lied about her age and was 17 when they originally got married. > > Of course, it also appears to mean that Laura was a high school dropout who was hanging around army bases when she was still jailbait. Hmm, maybe tv was racier in those days than I thought! Yeah, I think jailbait/shotgun marriages used to be more humorous than they are now? I’m really not being sarcastic when I ask why?