The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore

• Auction of The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore Wednesday, June 4 2025 at 11am

• Featuring Artwork, Furnishings, Silver, Decorative Objects and Memorabilia from Ms. Moore's home in Greenwich, Connecticut 

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NEW YORK, NY — Doyle will auction The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore on Wednesday, June 4 at 11am EDT in New York. The sale offers an exciting opportunity to acquire property from the personal collection of one of television’s most influential figures.

The auction showcases over 300 lots of artwork, furnishings, silver, decorative objects and memorabilia from Mary's home in Greenwich, Connecticut, which brought together pieces from her earlier residences in Millbrook, New York, and Manhattan.

The fine art offerings feature two portraits of Mary by Peter Max and two by Everett Raymond Kinstler, as well as two large-scale sculptures by Italian contemporary artist Mimmo Paladino.

Career memorabilia include original Al Hirschfeld drawings capturing Mary's roles in The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show,the wall mounted "M" from Mary Richards' apartment, and an unused ticket to “The Last Show,” the 1977 series finale. A rare Polaroid by Annie Leibovitz of Mary and Dick Van Dyke, along with a group of vintage publicity photographs, rounds out the collection.

Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017)

A native of Brooklyn, who began her career as a dancer, Mary Tyler Moore would ultimately lead one of the most influential lives in Hollywood history. A beloved and renowned actress and savvy media executive, Moore was a trailblazer and door-opener for women. Throughout her illustrious career, she won seven Emmy^® awards, a Tony Award, three Golden Globe^® Awards, an Academy Award^® nomination, and a SAG Lifetime Achievement Award.

Moore first rose to fame when she was cast as the indomitable “Laura Petrie” on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66), a role for which she won three Emmy^® Awards. Moore’s portrayal of “Laura Petrie” broke ground not only with her opinions and independent spirit, but also her signature fitted capri pants, forever changing the image of the modern American homemaker. Her starring role as “Mary Richards” in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77) catapulted her into icon status, shattered the glass ceiling for women in television, and inspired audiences across the country. For seven years, Saturday nights belonged to Ms. Moore and the many young girls who would dream of moving to Minneapolis and working at WJM-TV. Mary had forever opened new doors for women in television while also shaping public views of the single working woman. Whether navigating workplace discrimination and the fight for equal pay, or the pitfalls of dating and maintaining a work/life balance, “Mary Richards” was a role model for millions of women seeking to break boundaries in the 1970s. The Mary Tyler Moore Show won an unprecedented 29 Emmy^® Awards in its seven-year run (three for Moore herself as Best Actress in a Comedy Series), a record that would stand until 2002. Her beloved show would continue to air for decades after its final season, and young women all over the world continued tuning in as their own aspirations and dreams resonated with its deeply relatable theme, leaving an indelible mark as one of the greatest television shows of the 20^th century.

In 1980, Moore’s powerful performance in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People as “Beth Jarrett,” a mother grieving the loss of her son, garnered her an Academy Award^® nomination for Best Actress. The film ultimately won the Academy Award^® for Best Picture. In the same year, Moore was honored with a special Tony Award for her performance in Whose Life is It Anyway, a drama about a paralyzed sculptor’s fight to end her own life, and in which she was the first woman to replace a man (Tom Conti) in a leading role on Broadway. Huge departures from her earlier award-winning comedic work, these roles established Moore as an acclaimed, dramatic actor.

Alongside her illustrious credits as an actor, Moore broke ground as a producer and executive. The company she co-founded with Grant Tinker, MTM Enterprises, produced several defining television shows of the era including Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Newhart, Rhoda, White Shadow, and many others. Twice a New York Times Best-Selling Author, Moore wrote two memoirs in her lifetime. Her first, After All, was published in 1995 and her second, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes, in 2009.

In her personal life, Moore was a philanthropist and an animal lover. She advocated for animal welfare for years, and in 1999 she founded Broadway Barks with friend Bernadette Peters, which continues to this day to hold its annual event on Shubert Alley to promote the adoption of shelter animals in New York City and surrounding areas.

From age 30, Moore lived with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) and suffered many of its complications. For more than thirty years, she was a tireless advocate for diabetes research as the International Chairman for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), serving as a voice to the fears and hopes of millions of people with diabetes and the promise of research. Her important work with JDRF helped raise billions of dollars for research to cure diabetes and its complications. While Moore worked with JDRF to help relieve the burdens of diabetes for others, it had a devastating impact on her life, her near blindness from diabetic retinal disease stealing her joy and independence. In 2018, her husband, Dr. S. Robert Levine, founded the Mary Tyler Moore Vision Initiative to honor Moore’s contributions to diabetes research progress and help make her dream of a world without vision loss from diabetes a reality.

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