Being Mary Tyler Moore on Showmax
26 February 2025

Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023)

Being Mary Tyler Moore chronicles the groundbreaking life of a screen icon whose storied career spanned sixty years, earning her seven Emmys, three Golden Globes and an Oscar nomination. 

From Emmy-winning producer Lena Waithe and Emmy nominee Debra Martin Chase, Being Mary Tyler Moore was nominated for the 2023 Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, and won Best Archival Documentary at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. 

The gorgeous archive footage features a who’s-who of the era, including Audrey Hepburn, Betty White, Carol Burnett, Dustin Hoffman, Elvis Presley, Gloria Steinem, Goldie Hawn, Julie Andrews, Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek. 

Being Mary Tyler Moore has a 97% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with New York Times calling it, “an emotional experience, conjuring nostalgia of two distinct types: the gentle sort involved in remembering a beloved star of the past, and a more painful nostalgia provoked by recalling a time when womanhood seemed to beckon with new, liberating possibilities, and feminism seemed on a steady path forward …”

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