Mary Tyler Moore’s husband shares memories of the TV icon

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Mary Tyler Moore’s widower Dr. Robert Levine shares how he and the television icon first met and the love they shared until her passing in 2017. Dr. Levine also talks about how he is continuing her legacy and says, “She’s with me every day. The pain of her loss is unreconciled but I feel her love all around me.”
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@alanfisher2121 Жыл бұрын

Just like Mary's spirit and smile, this story warms my heart... ❤

@brianwelker5166 Жыл бұрын

I will forever love Mary Tyler Moore!

@gilfista5178 Жыл бұрын

I’m a Army veteran and a Father 😢 I’m proud to say she is one of my heroes growing up. She was always a warrior 🤙🏽

@domenicricci2978 7 ай бұрын

Thank You For Your Service!

@theastewart6721 Жыл бұрын

I had the pleasure of meeting Mary Tyler Moore along with her then husband Grant Tinker at the Plaza Hotel in 1971. It was during the second season run of her show. Both she and her husband, as well as the other guests were very kind to us. A treasured moment in my life. I’m glad she found happiness again in her life. ❤

@laylaali5977 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful husband god bless both of them

@taylorsmall2280 Жыл бұрын

Because of her show, as a rural Indiana young female, I was inspired to dream of a career. Inspiration! dreams come true.. ❤ MTM you live on✨❤️

@phonecoladycris5929 Жыл бұрын

That Girl with Marlo Thomas as a independent single working girl was earlier than the MTM show. I loved them both & they inspired me to be able to experience being an independent working girl supporting myself & living in my own place. My daughter doing the same. I’m happily married 32 yrs without the regret of missing that experience.

@Fordham1969 Жыл бұрын

You mention That Girl being in some ways a forerunner to MTM and the funny part about it is that while the writers of That Girl gave Ann Marie a steady boyfriend (played by Ted Bessell) from the very beginning of the series, the writers of MTM resisted doing that until near the end when they cast Bessell to be Mary's serious love interest.

@lmb4876 Жыл бұрын

Yes, simple acts of kindness is what should be the foundation of all relationships

@robynrains7252 Жыл бұрын

They were lucky enough to find each other ❤❤ what a nice piece 😊

@dianemurray6550 Жыл бұрын

I was about 9 when the MTM Show first aired. The image of a single, professional woman living alone on her own terms was impactful. We weren't shown many ways of "womaning" before that time.

@barbarawebb7185 3 ай бұрын

You forgot That Girl and the Doris Day romcoms of the late 50’s/early 60’s like Teacher’s Pet, Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back.

@dianemurray6550 3 ай бұрын

@@barbarawebb7185 Still very few. You can count them on one hand.

@annegreenwood3624 Жыл бұрын

a perfect love story their home is beautiful all the little touches she was admired by so many her memory lives on in all the amazing acting she did

@markberryhill2715 Жыл бұрын

Late,but that home was smoking hot. 🔥 I think they stole my plans. Lol

@andreaschneider6202 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this moving interview🙏 I have shed tears upon receiving the saddening news about the demises of just two celebrities, Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore😇😇

@lorettanericcio-bohlman567 Жыл бұрын

What a fabulous woman

@rizzo3170 Жыл бұрын

How kind a man - fitting that he would be married to such a lovely fine lady -- MTM was total class.

@deekeene4273 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful iconic woman, sure miss Mary!

@joycestepancevich6591 Жыл бұрын

Love is All around, no need to waste it"

@JeanineMarieCompassion Жыл бұрын

I will always love Mary!

@candymorrison7534 Жыл бұрын

I understand the pants thing, but Lucy wore pants occasionally too

@andrewsyd Жыл бұрын

Gosh I miss Mary popping up in interviews and award shows every now and then. This piece was nice to see :)

@monichat Жыл бұрын

MTM First episode first season - Mr Grant offers a drink, she said

@bluecollarlit 3 ай бұрын

Yes, as if Mr. Grant is going to have a mini bar and fridge and all ingredients and utensils in the bottom drawer of his desk, ready to make the dessert cocktail of your choice, haha!

@monichat 3 ай бұрын

@@bluecollarlit The writers of MTM show were very talented, made me laugh often

@Danuta628 Жыл бұрын

How hard must it be to have all her thing’s surrounding the house every day, which is true for anyone who loses their partner - kills me

@gedigi9010 Жыл бұрын

Her Husband is Very Handsome.

@cocoaorange1 Жыл бұрын

That is rare , that is cool over 30 years! That is too bad they never adopted.

@moontheloon5 Жыл бұрын

I love Mary and this was very sweet. However, Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance regularly wore pants on I Love Lucy a decade before Mary did.

@kelleywatkins6001 Жыл бұрын

SHE WAS AMAZING N TO LOSE A CHILD..SO SORRY... WHAT A MAN... BEAUTIFUL FAMILY N STORY...

@pamlewis1183 Жыл бұрын

Great interview! Thank You 😊

@ruthjesse6759 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful Video. Wonderful Documentary.

@ilovegoodsax Жыл бұрын

I remember when Mary and Robert married in the early 80s and the uproar surrounding the age difference, which I think is about 18 years. Robert is just a couple of years older than Mary's late son Richie.

@davisholman8149 Жыл бұрын

They said a 16 year age difference.

@ilovegoodsax Жыл бұрын

@@davisholman8149 Robert was born in 1954, Mary in 1936. Do the math.

@monichat Жыл бұрын

Why should the man be older, who made that rule ? Age is only a calendar thing.

@ilovegoodsax Жыл бұрын

@@monichat Hey -- I was just recalling a memory of the tongue wagging that was going on in the media outlets and magazines when Mary and Robert married in the early 80s. 👅👅👅

@brvndxxxn Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@sarahjmarquez Жыл бұрын

May she RIP

@2_thumbs_up_baby Жыл бұрын

What a great guy.

@momiowa9509 Жыл бұрын

While I love Mary ,that has been told over and over about wearing pants, having a loving relationship with husband, kissing etc. but Lucille Bal in I Love Lucy wore pants. In fact if you watch many of the family sitcoms of the 50's so did other moms...Donna Reed for one.

@Esmeralda-bl3ld Жыл бұрын

Lucy wore the pants!!!!

@ericcoverdale9523 Жыл бұрын

I met Mary Tyler Moore when she came to Macy's Herald Square, where I was working at the time. My friend called me downstairs, but didn't tell me WHY! We were backstage at the event where she was appearing and when it was over, I was introduced... I was so flustered that I said, "It's such a pleasure to meet you Miss Petrie!" Well, she just laughed and shook my hand... I was so embarrassed. But, that's just the type of person she was, always so kind... And that Smile!!! 💗

@wendytravis6427 Жыл бұрын

I loved the Mary Tyler Moore Show , but That Girl with Marlo Thomas was the first show with a career driven women.

@eddie10191 3 ай бұрын

This woman got me in trouble as a kid. Watching reruns at 2 in the morning and school the next day. And when I was in school working for the cable company in New York City. Got a chance to meet her at her apartment. She “IS” an incredible woman.

@wardarcade7452 Жыл бұрын

3:31- Those tears when she broke down after telling the others 'Thank you for being my family'!' were for real! Perhaps one of the saddest ironies of her life was that her work family on 'MTM' seemed to have been much more loyal and supportive than her original family had been! Years later she admitted that, contrary to the media coverage at the time, she had NOT wanted to end the show but was essentially told to do it to better market the future syndication package by her then-husband Grant Tinker and the other MTM execs!

@greeneyedwarlock882 Жыл бұрын

Reeeeeally? I’ve never heard that and I’m a HUGE MTM fan. Don’t believe it for a second and when you mention her “original” family, what exactly do you mean? Her parents, or which of her 3 Husbands? Or her Son who she basically ignored and shipped out to his father, her 1st husband, most of the time?

@wardarcade7452 Жыл бұрын

@@greeneyedwarlock882 Her parents. Her father was cold and critical towards her his entire life and her mother, among other things, accused her of lying about a family friend doing criminal actions to her. .when she was SIX!

@greeneyedwarlock882 Жыл бұрын

@@wardarcade7452 I’ve never heard that about her father but I can believe it about her Mother because she was a stone cold Alcoholic. So much so that Mary had to be farmed out to her Grandparents and other family members on the weekends (I think) because she was literally incapable of taking care of her own children. Pathetic.

@akrenwinkle 3 ай бұрын

@@wardarcade7452 The "thank you for being my family" comment is very typical for these boards. Many people have no clue what the job of an actor is, why some people are expert at it, some are mediocre, and some can't do it at all.

@Danuta628 Жыл бұрын

Lucille Ball wore pants on I love Lucy which was before Mary’s time -

@wendyhubbard3109 Жыл бұрын

As a parent of a type 1 child, I cannot share my gratitude enough for making diabetes as important focus.

@cocoaorange1 Жыл бұрын

Nice home.

@treasuremuch9185 Жыл бұрын

An icon and inspiration. Although Lucille Ball wore pants on TV before her on I Love Lucy.

@greeneyedwarlock882 Жыл бұрын

Ahhhhhh.........just like the ONE AND ONLY QUEEN OF ROCK N' ROLL Tina Turner who just died 2 days ago, the EQUALLY ONE AND ONLY Marty Tyler Moore was an ICON of American Television and a ground breaker of immeasurable proportions. How many of us WISH WISH WISH we had a friend like Mary Richards did in Rhoda Morgenstern! Eternal blessings on Moore's fabulous heart, soul, career and legacy!!!

@the_resourceful Жыл бұрын

MTM. Great show!

@breckrichardson390 Жыл бұрын

No Jenna, Mary was not the first woman on TV to wear pants. Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, for example, many times wore pants on "I Love Lucy." Mary, however, probably was the first woman to wear pants regularly, and the first to wear *form-fitting* pants, which was a bit controversial at the time, and I believe there was some deal where she was only allowed to wear pants in one scene per episode.

@dumar11 Жыл бұрын

I love Mary Tyler Moore Show and she did do a lot for women but That Girl with Marlo Thomas was also revolutionary for women and it came first. I’m also pretty sure she wore pants.

@karenmassaro2591 Жыл бұрын

I believe Lucille Ball occasionally wore pants in I Love Lucy too

@dddddadadad1796 Жыл бұрын

❤❤ MARY

@frankcheers7529 Жыл бұрын

Actually, Lucille Ball was the first woman to wear pants on television.

@carolinemansfield-wright3923 Жыл бұрын

Loved MTM ❤️

@dalededen Жыл бұрын

Pants? Look at I Love Lucy. She wore pants.

@alba4203 Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤ rip,era molto molto bello questo show

@judymartin9026 Жыл бұрын

I don't think Mary was the first woman to wear pants on TV. Didn't Lucille Ball wear pants on I Love Lucy before Mary Tyler Moore was on TV?

@allanjacquadro870 Жыл бұрын

Lucy wore pants in the 50s

@LateTalksOnAir Жыл бұрын

❤

@gatamadriz Жыл бұрын

I wish they would reissue some of her cable and TV movies, like Finnigan, Begin Again.

@Val-we3kk Жыл бұрын

Where can you watch the documentary now?

@theastewart6721 Жыл бұрын

Those of us were there watching know all about her wearing pants. Capri’s I think, lol

@kathleenbrown6734 Жыл бұрын

when is the documentary?

@vickyrodden5273 Жыл бұрын

No not true Lucille Ball was the first woman to wear pants on. Needed to clear that up but Mary Tyoler Moore was amazing!

@zee3499 Жыл бұрын

Lucille ball was wearing slacks on television ten years before MTM.

@bojest5863 Жыл бұрын

Love Mary. But I remember Lucy wearing pants, too.

@pAusten Жыл бұрын

"First woman on television to wear pants!" 😂 Fact check! Start with Katherine Hepburn ....... there were others. Google it 😉 Love Mary Tyler Moore's story. ❤

@DaveKaramazov Жыл бұрын

Anybody know how to describe the layout and type of windows at 1:52?

@wintercame Жыл бұрын

Clerestory windows.

@m.e.d.7997 Жыл бұрын

Nice of Robert Levine to do this.. Seems like a nice man.

@DiegoRamirez-zc7fs Жыл бұрын

Robert was known as Shelley in college (Cornell), because his middle name is Sheldon.

@barbarawebb7185 3 ай бұрын

@@DiegoRamirez-zc7fswhat was he like?

@DiegoRamirez-zc7fs 3 ай бұрын

@@barbarawebb7185 he was very introverted and studious. Never dated. He was in the engineering dorm and was overweight. Years later I saw him in NYC w Mary and said “Shelley!” Mary laughed and said “what is he saying, Robert?!” And S looked embarrassed and told Mary it was just a nickname.

@barbarawebb7185 3 ай бұрын

@@DiegoRamirez-zc7fs he majored in engineering? I’m not surprised he was an introvert and a little different.

@barbarawebb7185 3 ай бұрын

@@DiegoRamirez-zc7fs he does seem a bit unusual. You would think Mary was more extroverted and cool in her own way. Was he an engineering major?

@donniemoder1466 Жыл бұрын

MTM was not the first woman to wear pants on television. I distinctly remember Lucille Ball wearing pants on television before her. Lucille Ball was the biggest female force on television as a star and as an executive as she took over DesiLu after her divorce from Desi Arnaz.

@voyaristika5673 11 ай бұрын

It's amusing that these younger women think Mary was groundbreaking. Her character was just reflecting the times. Wearing pants to work was no big deal. Many women had careers, certainly jobs anyway. Mary was a beloved person and seemed very genuine and kind. That's a much better legacy than being "groundbreaking", which she was not.

@NewCreationInChrist896 Жыл бұрын

Romans 10:9-10🙏

@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын

Levine said that when he met Mary, he didn't know she was a big star. He had been so busy he hadn't seen her TV show... you know, the one that ran seven years. Why is it some of the most wonderful, beloved female entertainers have poor judgment and abysmal taste in men?

@moontheloon5 Жыл бұрын

Alot of people don't watch tv, believe it or not. They seemed to have a wonderful marriage tho and he seems like a good man. I'm glad Mary was happy.

@stevekay1925 Жыл бұрын

Who hurt you?

@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын

@@stevekay1925 Not you, schmuck. Not that you'll comprehend this, but relationships that start off with fibs or full-blown lies aren't the cat's pajamas. Cardiology is an honorable profession, but it doesn't get you a palatial estate and a guaranteed huge inheritance later. The guy just plain looks creepy and sleazy. Tough toenails if somebody doesn't see things your way.

@victorblock3421 Жыл бұрын

I stopped watching TV in 1990. I watch when in a hotel room or someone's. Yes, I understood at 26 years old that it was poison. I was tired of being "programmed". I knew mary Tyler Moore and many others from watching too much before I stopped watching.

@roxannesantoro7503 Жыл бұрын

Gary Morton, Lucille Ball's second husband knew who she was, but had never saw "I Love Lucy" either.

@kevinsmith5288 Жыл бұрын

I love Mary Tyler Moore, but Marlo Thomas never gets credit for actually being the first career driven woman on That Girl, which first aired in 1966, 4 years before The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Maybe because she had a steady boyfriend caused her not to appear independent, I don't know, just saying.

@deborahmasgrau4486 Жыл бұрын

Lucille Ball wore slacks on TV before MTM

@MichelleMohr-lt1wo Жыл бұрын

Wrong, Lucy wore pants in the 40's or 50's. Mary wasn't on tv till the 60's. Fake newscasters still lie. But, I loved MTM, she was incredible.

@elainesmith7512 Жыл бұрын

Lucy of "I Love Lucy" wore PANTS a generation before Mary wore them on her shows. Look it up. 🤔🤔👍👍❤❤

@voxpopuli5663 Жыл бұрын

Hardly any mention of the loss of her son …

@paulchezkari6952 Жыл бұрын

What was their age difference??

@victorblock3421 Жыл бұрын

First to wear pants...........Gee, how groundbreaking.

@Melanie-qj8yi 7 ай бұрын

Wasn't Lucy the first woman to wear pants on a sitcom?

@pushpak Жыл бұрын

Love MTM but she was not the first woman to wear pants on TV.

@rachelsremedies2602 Жыл бұрын

Notice he doesn’t post. If you want know about her multimillionaire life , I will treat you fans to a McDonald breakfast to listen to her life style! 😫😫😎

@rockit6553 Жыл бұрын

Ok I'm a guy with a set of balls & I'm going to commit a terrible sin & go against the accepted norm. But you're gonna hear it & you're not gonna like it because nobody & I mean nobody wants to hear the truth. Career driven women has very much helped with the erosion of the family unit without a doubt. Not an opinion but a FACT!!!!! By the way I'm a big fan of MTM & her fantastic iconic show!!!!!