BEING MARY TYLER MOORE Debuts May 26th

BEING MARY TYLER MOORE, directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker James Adolphus (“Soul of a Nation”) and produced by Lena Waithe (“A Thousand and One”), Debra Martin Chase (“Harriet”), and Ben Selkow (HBO’s “Q: Into The Storm”), premieres on HBO and will be available to stream on Max on FRIDAY, MAY 26 (8:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT).

The film had its world premiere at the 2023 South by Southwest Film Festival.

BEING MARY TYLER MOORE chronicles the screen icon whose illustrious career spanned sixty years, using unprecedented access to Mary Tyler Moore’s vast archive. The film weaves Moore’s personal story with the beats of her professional achievements, highlighting her groundbreaking roles and the indelible impact she had on generations of women who followed her.

Moore’s career broke barriers in different eras, most notably in her comedic roles as Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s and as single career woman Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s, both of which put her at the forefront of female representation on television and cemented her as a role model for independent working women.

Recognizing that much of herself got woven into her sunny characters, she struggled behind the scenes, dealing privately with immeasurable tragedy in her personal life, some of which got echoed in her portrayal of a grieving mother in the 1980 film “Ordinary People,” which she received an Academy Award nomination.

Moore went through a transformative period of self-discovery in the last 35 years of her life, moving to New York City, finding true love, and eventually becoming an influential global advocate for diabetes research.

BEING MARY TYLER MOORE chronicles the life of a complex artist who changed the dynamics of how women were portrayed on television, had a large impact on the business through her own production company, and helped bring about significant change through her work as International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Family members, colleagues, and those whose lives Mary Tyler Moore influenced include directors Rob Reiner, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Jim Burrows, actors Ed Asner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lena Waithe, Phylicia Rashad, Bernadette Peters, and Joel Grey, writers and producers Allan Burns, James L. Brooks, Norman Lear, Debra Martin Chase, Treva Silverman, Susan Silver, and Moore’s husband, Dr. S.

BEING MARY TYLER MOORE is presented by HBO Documentary Films in association with FIFTH SEASON, a Hillman Grad production, a Debra Martin Chase production, a The Mission Entertainment Production, and a Good Trouble Studios production.

Directed by James Adolphus; produced by Ben Selkow, James Adolphus, Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, Debra Martin Chase, Andrew C. Coles, and Laura Gardner; executive produced by S. Robert Levine, MD, and Michael Bernstein. Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller are executive producers for HBO, and Anna Klein is the coordinating producer.

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