Congratulations to TERRY MOORE who was 88 on 7th.January,2017.
Discovering “Shack Out on 101“ last year got me looking at the films of Terry Moore whose career included an Oscar nomination for Come Back Little Sheba (1952) . She co-starred with Jimmy Durante, Victor Mature, Robert Cummings, Mickey Rooney, Audie Murphy, Tyrone Power and Fredric March.
CAST A LONG SHADOW with Audie Murphy.
With Tyrone Power. KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES
With Victor Mature. GAMBLING HOUSE
With Ben Johnson and Robert Armstrong.MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
Terry was in a movie that I have never heard of – MAN ON A TIGHTROPE (1953) which has a great cast – Fredric March (Terry plays his daughter), Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou. Fortunately the film is available on dvd and I look forward to seeing it. Has anyone seen it?
And Terry danced with Fred Astaire.
. DADDY LONG LEGS
Terry appeared in many TV shows and had a recurring role in EMPIRE (1962-64).
With Ryan O’Neal, Denver Pyle .EMPIRE
With Eric Fleming. RAWHIDE
As recently as 2014,Terry was in the final episode of TRUE DETECTIVE, with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson .
Terry also attended a tribute to Audie Murphy in Greenville,Texas in 2015.
She was interviewed by Eddie Mueller in 2014 after a screening of Shack Out On 101 – she was great friends with Lee Marvin. When asked about her longevity, Terry said , no smoking or drinking, yoga twice a week, and she walks 10 to 15 miles at weekends!
With Dana Andrews. TOWN TAMER
With Glenn Ford. A DATE WITH DESTINY (1948)
The controversy over Terry’s relationship with Howard Hughes continues. In a You Tube interview, Terry said they were married on a ship and there was ‘a log of their marriage’. She added that she, not Jean Peters, was the legal Mrs. Hughes. She also agreed that she was a bigamist ( as she had two subsequent marriages!)
She wanted the marriage kept secret because of her career. Terry met Hughes when she was 18 and she called it quits after 8 years. She and Jane Russell worked with Leonardo de Caprio on THE AVIATOR, in which De Caprio played Howard Hughes.
Terry’s book about Howard Hughes
The Hughes estate paid an undisclosed sum to Terry in 1984.
with James Dean
At a premiere with Charlton Heston and Richard Widmark
With Richard Jaekel. Come Back Little Sheba
With Robert Wagner.BENEATH THE 12 MILE REEF.
With Frank Lovejoy.SHACK OUT ON 101
With Lee Marvin. Shack Out on 101
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I saw MAN ON A TIGHTROPE a coupke of years ago and my recollection is that it was very good.
You can’t really go wrong with Fredric March and Adolphe Menjou being in it.
I am looking forward to seeing it.
This is lovely! Thank you for posting this, with so many beautiful pictures. Happy Birthday Terry Moore!!!
I love her in the Christmas movie with Tom Drake and Jimmy Durante!
I haven’t seen these early films. Will watch out for them.
Nice tribute to a lady who has had quite a life so far, and some marvelous cinema and TV credits too.
Someone who perhaps deserves more credit for her work.
I think so too, and you’ve go some way towards doing so here.
Must try and see Come Back Little Sheba.
She’s had an impressive career. There are a quite a few films mentioned here that I have yet to see. Some great viewing ahead! 😉
Yes, several I’d like to see. I did catch Man on a Tightrope, an interesting film, but Terry hasn’t a big part.
I love her enthusiasm and she’s become quite the Hollywood Character and colorful raconteur in interviews. That she occasionally doesn’t let truth get in the way of a good story somehow becomes part of her charm in the telling it (and perhaps more slip-up than lie, anyway). She’s an awestruck fan of the Golden Age despite having been a star in it herself – and that’s appealing, as with it she conveys un-jaded love for people and her profession.
The almost innocent delight in such enthusiasm reminds me of what was said of Constance Collier, and that she was also a great raconteur (raconteusse?). Indeed having read Coward’s affectionate words about her when she died, I’d not be surprised if she was at least one of the people on his mind when he wrote the hilarious “Marvellous Party”.
Always remember Constance Collier in Stage Door.
I think that movie perhaps more than any other, allowed her to express her passion for acting – and of course in real life also, she was Hepburn’s coach and friend right up until her death in ’55. A source of her great zeal was probably the fact she was diabetic from a young age, which in those days meant one was living on borrowed time and likely made her all the more grateful to have a successful career.