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Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford) (born 7 January 1929) is an Oscar-nominated American actress.
January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, as Helen Luella Koford, Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland (1940). Moore was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948.
In the 1940s Moore was marketed as a Hollywood sex siren.
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Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford) (born 7 January 1929) is an Oscar-nominated American actress.
Early life
Born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, as Helen Luella Koford, Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland (1940). Moore was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948.
In the 1940s Moore was marketed as a Hollywood sex siren. By the 1950s she was competing with Marilyn Monroe for attention and roles.
Career
Moore worked in radio in the 1940s, most memorably as Bumps Smith on The Smiths of Hollywood alongside Arthur Treacher, Harry Von Zell and Brenda Marshall. (During the run of The Smiths of Hollywood, Moore used the name Jan Ford). Most of her films were B-pictures, but several were box office hits, including Mighty Joe Young (1949), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) - for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Peyton Place (1957).
In 1962 she appeared as a rancher's daughter in the NBC Western drama Empire, opposite Richard Egan and Ryan O'Neal. Moore has worked steadily throughout her career, usually in minor roles in small films. She appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.
Moore believes that she is best known for her performance in Mighty Joe Young, when she was age 18 (2006 DVD commentary). She says that more fans request autographed photos of Joe holding her above his head from that film than any other screen picture. Moore and animator Ray Harryhausen made a cameo appearance in the 1998 remake "Mighty Joe Young".
In 2008, she joined friend and "ex-supermodel" Gita Hall on the VH1 program 'Old Skool With Terry & Gita', where the two senior citizens explored pornography, hip hop music and gay culture.
Personal Life
Moore lived with Howard Hughes briefly in a small duplex or cabin at his Tule Springs Ranch near Las Vegas, Nevada. After he died, Moore claimed that they married secretly in 1949, and never divorced. She failed to provide any evidence of a marriage, but the Hughes's estate paid her a settlement in 1984.
Moore wrote two books about Hughes:
- Terry Moore - The Beauty and the Billionaire, New York (1984).
- Terry Moore and Jerry Rivers - The Passions of Howard Hughes. General Publishing Group (1996), an abridged audio version of the book narrated by Terry. She claims that Hughes was denied medical treatment by people conspiring to take over his estate.
She married an American football player,Glenn Davis, in 1951. If she married Hughes in 1949, and that marriage was neithor annulled nor ended by a legal divorce, then she was married to these two at the same time. However, she was never tried for bigamy.
Moore gave birth to a son, actor Grant Cramer.
She was one of the first female jet airplane pilots.
At age 55, Moore posed nude in the August 1984 issue of Playboy magazine. She told Jeff Benziger of Autograph Collector Magazine in a 2003 interview that her nude pictorial was a "revenge thing" against those who think women are washed up at 30. "In Hollywood, they think you're only good from 18 to 25 -- that's a woman's years. A man goes on forever. I'd see the girls with the false breasts, and the nose jobs, and the things put in the cheeks, and everything. And I thought, 'I'm all natural. I thought, I'll show them'. And my photos were unretouched." She refused to pose nude again at age 65, saying that she had proven her point.
Despite appearing naked in Playboy, Moore describes herself as a "devout Mormon".
Filmography
Television Appearances
- What's My Line? (1955) (as a mystery celebrity guest)
- The Name's The Same (1955) (celebrity guest)
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