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Terry Moore (actress) - Definition and Overview |
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Terry Moore is an American actress.
She was born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929 in Los Angeles. Moore worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland (1940). Throughout the decade, she worked under a variety of names before settling on Terry Moore in 1948. Although cast in mostly B-pictures, she managed to make her mark in several box office hits, including Mighty Joe Young (1940), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) - for which she was nominated for an Academy Award - and Peyton Place (1957).
Long romantically involved with billionaire Howard Hughes, Moore claimed after his death that they had secretly married in 1949 and never divorced. Although she could offer no definitive proof of her allegation, Hughes's estate paid her a settlement in 1984. She went on to write 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)
She describes herself throughout as a "devout Mormon". She was also one of the first female jet pilots.
Although Moore has worked steadily for the past few decades, her appearances have been in usually minor roles in mostly forgettable films.
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