Terry Moore

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Biography

Born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929, the Los Angeles, California, native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century-Fox's _Maryland .

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·producer·writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 07 January 1929
  • Place of birth
  • Houston
  • Death date
  • 2018-09-24
  • Death age
  • 83
  • Place of death
  • Collinsville· Illinois
  • Children
  • Grant Cramer·Grant Cramer
  • Spouses
  • Howard Hughes·Glenn Davis
  • Knows language
  • English language·English language
  • Member of
  • North Melbourne Football Club·Hawthorn Football Club·St. Louis Cardinals·Canada men's national soccer team·Tampa Bay Rowdies

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

After Howard Hughes died, she claimed that the pair had secretly married on a yacht in international waters off the coast of Mexico in 1949 and never divorced. Despite the fact that Moore married two other men while she was still "married" to Hughes, his estate paid her an undisclosed settlement in 1984.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver s book "Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures" (Midnight Marquee Press, 1996).

Grandmother of actress/reporter/host Alexandra Cramer.

Close friends with Jane Russell , Lee Phillip Bell and Anne Jeffreys.

At age 81, she still takes acting classes twice a week.

Currently living in her Ocean View Condo in Santa Monica, California.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7076 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a son Grant Lamar Cramer (aka Grant Cramer ) on November 10, 1961. Childs father is her now ex-4th husband, Stuart Warren Cramer III.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 31, a son Stuart Warren Cramer IV (aka Stuart Cramer ) on July 28, 1960. Childs father is her now ex-4th husband, Stuart Warren Cramer III.

(March 2012) Williamsburg, Virginia: Attended the Williamsburg Film Festival.

(November 2008) Attended an event at the American Cinematheques Egyptian Theatre marking the 50th anniversary of the untimely passing of actor Tyrone Power. Four of his films were screened: Love Is News , The Mark of Zorro , The Razors Edge and Nightmare Alley . Also in attendance were his children, Tyrone Power Jr. , Taryn Power and Romina Power , and other actors who worked with him, including Coleen Gray , Piper Laurie and Jayne Meadows.

(November 2011) Attended the New Jersey Comic Expo in Teaneck, New Jersey, along with "Batman" guest stars Lee Meriwether , Susan Silo , Deanna Lund and Donna Loren.

As of 2016 she is the 6th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Olivia de Havilland , Angela Lansbury , Ann Blyth , Nancy Olson and Lee Grant. She was nominated in 1952 for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) .

According to Sheilah Graham s reporting, Moore wore a blue Jean Louis suit and custom-made blue stockings for her wedding to Glenn Davis in 1951.

Good friends with Elvis Presley.

Moores real life friends Pat Billam and Darren Billam got him the part of "Nipples" in 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams .

Quotes

I hate silicone, because now everyone can have what I have.

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