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Terry Moore
Terry Moore
	Moore in 1947
Born	Helen Luella Koford; January 7, 1929 (age 95); Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names	Judy Ford; Jan Ford; January Ford;
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1940–present
Known for	Come Back, Little Sheba; Mighty Joe Young; The Great Rupert
Spouses	; Glenn Davis (m. 1951; div. 1952) ; Eugene McGrath (m. 1956; div. 1959) ; Stuart Cramer (m. 1959; div. 1970) ; Richard Carey (m. 1979; div. 1980) ; Jerry Rivers (m. 1992; died 2001)
Partner	Howard Hughes (1949-1976; disputed marriage)
Children	2, including Grant Cramer

Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford; January 7, 1929) is an American actress who began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).

Biography

Child actress

Moore was born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, and grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles.^[1]

Moore's early appearances include The Howards of Virginia (1940), On the Sunny Side (1942), My Gal Sal (1942), A-Haunting We Will Go (1942), True to Life (1943), Gaslight (1944) (playing Ingrid Bergman's character as a child), Since You Went Away (1944), Sweet and Low-Down (1944), and The Clock (1945).^[2] As Helen Koford, she had a supporting role in Son of Lassie (1945) and Shadowed (1946).^[3] As "Jan Ford" she was billed third in The Devil on Wheels (1947) at Monogram. She was uncredited in Heartaches (1948) and Summer Holiday (1948).^[2]

Moore worked in radio in the 1940s, most memorably as Bumps Smith on The Smiths of Hollywood.

Columbia

Moore's career received a boost when Columbia Pictures signed her to a long-term contract. She had the lead in The Return of October (1948) with Glenn Ford, playing a character called Terry Ramsey, after which Terry became her stage name.^[2]

Moore was borrowed by RKO to star in Mighty Joe Young (1949), a film about a giant gorilla that won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. George Pal cast her in The Great Rupert (1950) with Jimmy Durante.^[4]

At Columbia, Moore co-starred with Mickey Rooney in He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950). She also did Gambling House (1950) with Victor Mature at RKO, Two of a Kind (1951), Sunny Side of the Street (1951), and The Barefoot Mailman (1951).

Moore played Marie Buckholder in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), produced by Hal Wallis, with Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth as co-stars. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.^{[citation needed]}

Moore began appearing in television shows like The Ford Television Theatre and appeared on the cover of Life magazine on July 6, 1953, as "Hollywood's sexy tomboy". Her photo was used on the cover of the second issue of the My Diary romance comic book (cover dated March 1950).^[5]^[6]

20th Century Fox

Elia Kazan cast Moore in the female lead in the 20th Century Fox drama Man on a Tightrope (1953). Fox then signed Moore to a long-term contract. It gave her the female lead in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), the second film in CinemaScope and a big hit. Also popular was King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) with Tyrone Power.^[7]^[8]

Moore supported Fred Astaire in Daddy Long Legs (1955) and had the lead in some thrillers: Shack Out on 101 (1955) and Portrait of Alison (1955).

Between Heaven and Hell (1956) reunited her with Robert Wagner, the leading man in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. She guest-starred on TV shows like The 20th Century-Fox Hour, General Electric Theater, Playhouse 90, Climax!, Studio One in Hollywood, and Rawhide.^[9]

Fox used her in Bernardine (1957) with Pat Boone and Peyton Place (1957) with Lana Turner. They then put her in the less popular A Private's Affair (1959). She was Audie Murphy's leading lady in Cast a Long Shadow (1959).

1960s

Moore had the lead in Platinum High School (1960) and Why Must I Die? (1960), producing the latter.

Moore guest starred on Checkmate and The Rebel and had a regular role as a rancher's daughter in the NBC Western Empire. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.

Other appearances during this period include Black Spurs (1965), Town Tamer (1965), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Waco (1966), and A Man Called Dagger (1968) as well as episodes of The Virginian, and Batman.

1970s

Moore's 1970s appearances included Quarantined (1970), Bonanza, The Daredevil (1972), Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976), and Death Dimension (1978).

1980s

In the 1980s Moore's roles included appearances in Double Exposure (1982), Hellhole (1985), Going Overboard (1989), American Boyfriends (1989), and Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989) and episodes of Matt Houston, Knight Rider, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, True Confessions, and Wiseguy.

At age 55, Moore posed nude in the August 1984 issue of Playboy magazine, photographed by Ken Marcus. She also appeared in theatre.^[10]

She appeared in and did the story for Beverly Hills Brats (1989).

Later career

Moore was in Murder, She Wrote; Marilyn and Me (both in 1991); American Southern (1995); Second Chances (1998) (which she also produced); Mighty Joe Young (1998); and Final Voyage (1999).

Moore produced but did not appear in America's Funniest Home Videos and Nandi (1998).

In the 2000s, Moore's appearances include roles in Stageghost (2000), Kill Your Darlings (2006), The Still Life (2007), Dewitt & Maria (2010), a guest-starring role as Lilly Hill on the crime series True Detective (2014), Aimy in a Cage (2015), Ray Donovan, and Silent Life (2019).

Personal life

Moore married American football star and Heisman Trophy winner Glenn Davis (known as Mr. Outside when he played at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point) in 1951. They were divorced the following year. A subsequent marriage to Eugene McGarth^{[citation needed]} in 1956 lasted three years. One year after this marriage ended, Moore married Stuart Cramer after his divorce from Jean Peters;^[11]^{[failed verification]} they had two children together, Stuart Cramer IV and actor Grant Cramer, before divorcing in 1972. In 1979, Moore claimed to have married Richard F. Carey, in Mexico; he disappeared a few days later, having swindled her and others out of their money.^[12] Her 1992 marriage to Jerry Rivers lasted until his death in 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Moore became the subject of public attention as a result of her relationship with Howard Hughes.^[13] According to Moore, she and Hughes were married in 1949 in a ceremony performed by a ship captain in international waters.^[12]^[14] Moore has said that Hughes destroyed the ship's log that recorded the marriage, and they separated from each other by 1956,^[15] but she and Hughes were never divorced.^[13] Moore has explained her subsequent marriages during Hughes' lifetime by saying, "I didn't care whether I was a bigamist or not, frankly. I mean, my desire to have children was that strong."^[15]

The Texas courts rejected Moore's claim of being Hughes' widow based on judicial estoppel; since Moore had claimed in her divorce from Cramer to have been married to him in 1959 and received a property settlement in that case, her claim that she was married to Hughes at the time was inconsistent with that and would not be accepted.^[16] Nevertheless, the Hughes heirs agreed that Moore had had a long-term relationship with Hughes and agreed to a financial settlement with her.^[17] Moore described the settlement as "not more than eight figures";^[18] a biography of Hughes implies that the settlement was $350,000.^[17]

Moore dated actor Glenn Ford in the early 1970s.^[19]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Comments
1940	Maryland	Girl	Uncredited
1940	The Howards of Virginia	Neighbor Girl	Uncredited
1942	On the Sunny Side	Little Girl	Uncredited
	My Gal Sal	Carrie Dreiser	Uncredited
	A-Haunting We Will Go	Dante's Young Admirer	Uncredited
1943	True to Life	Little Girl	Uncredited
1944	Since You Went Away	Refugee Child on Train	Uncredited
1944	Gaslight	Paula Alquist (age 14)	Uncredited
1945	The Clock	Girl at Museum	Uncredited
1945	Son of Lassie	Thea	Credited as Helen Koford
1946	Shadowed	Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson	Credited as Helen Koford
1947	The Devil on Wheels	Rusty Davis	Credited as Jan Ford
1948	The Return of October	Terry Ramsey	From now on credited as Terry Moore
1949	Mighty Joe Young	Jill Young
1950	The Great Rupert	Rosalinda Amendola
1950	He's a Cockeyed Wonder	Judy Sears
1951	Gambling House	Lynn Warren
	Two of a Kind	Kathy McIntyre
	Sunny Side of the Street	Betty Holloway
	The Barefoot Mailman	Adie Titus
1952	Come Back, Little Sheba	Marie Buckholder	Nominated–Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1953	Beneath the 12-Mile Reef	Gwyneth Rhys
1953	King of the Khyber Rifles	Susan
1955	Daddy Long Legs	Linda Pendleton
	Shack Out on 101	Kotty
	The United States Steel Hour	Caroline Schwendinger	Episode: "Scandal at Peppernut"
1956	Portrait of Alison	Alison Ford
	Between Heaven and Hell	Jenny Gifford
	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Ann Winslow	Episode: "The Moneymaker"
1957	Bernardine	Jean Cantrick
1957	Peyton Place	Betty Anderson
1958	Studio One	Annabelle	Episode: "The Man Who Asked for a Funeral"
1959	Rawhide	Dallas	Episode: "Incident Of The Tumbleweed" (Season 1 Episode 1, 9 January 1959)
	Cast a Long Shadow	Janet Calvert
	A Private's Affair	Louise Wright
1960	Platinum High School	Jennifer Evans	Alternative title: Trouble at Sixteen
1960	Why Must I Die?	Lois King
1961	The Rebel	Janice	Episode: "The Executioner"
1962–1963	Empire	Connie Garrett	20 episodes
1963	Burke's Law	Sarah Kingston	Episode: "Who Killed Eleanora Davis?"
1965	Black Spurs	Anna
	Town Tamer	Susan Tavenner	Co-starred with Dana Andrews
	City of Fear	Suzan
1966	My Three Sons	Eleanor	Episode: "Steve and the Huntress"
	Waco	Dolly
	The Virginian	Alma Wilson	Episode: "High Stakes"
1967	Batman	Venus	3 episodes: The Zodiac Crimes, The Joker's Hard Times, and The Penguin Declines.
1968	A Man Called Dagger	Harper Davis	Filmed in 1966
1970	Quarantined	Martha Atkinson	Television movie
1970	Bonanza	Lydia Yates	Episode: "Gideon the Good"
1976	Smash-Up on Interstate 5	Trudy	Television movie
1978	Death Dimension	Madam Maria
1983	Matt Houston	Emily Armor	Episode: "A Novel Way to Die"
	Knight Rider	Molly Friedrich	Episode: "K.I.T.T. the Cat"
	Fantasy Island	Audrey Wilkins	Episode: "The Butler's Affair/Roarke's Sacrifice"
1985	Hellhole	Sidnee Hammond
1988	Wiseguy	Dr. Leitner	Episode: "Phantom Pain" Uncredited
1989	Going Overboard	Mistress
	American Boyfriends	Al Walker
	Beverly Hills Brats	Veronica
1991	Marilyn & Me	Woman at Hyde's Funeral	Television movie
1995	American Southern	Peggin
1998	Mighty Joe Young	Elegant Woman at Party
1998	Second Chances	Dallas Taylor Judd
1999	Final Voyage	Christina
2000	Stageghost	Olive
2006	Kill Your Darlings	Ella Toscana
2007	The Still Life	Mrs. Stratford
2007	The Desert Rose	Jamie Shaw
2009	Ariel	Liz
2010	Dewitt & Maria	Terry
2012	Margarine Wars	Miriam Cuningham
2014	Aimy in a Cage	Grandma
	True Detective	Lilly Hill	Episode: "Form and Void"
	Mansion of Blood	Natalie
2016	Ray Donovan	Nazani Minassian	Episode: "Norman Saves the World"
2016	Merrily	Betty Clurman
2018	Saving Flora	Sylvia
2019	Silent Life	Lady in Black

References

^ "Terry Moore". Los Angeles Times. Hollywood Star Walk. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Terry Moore, Starlet Soon to Be Unveiled, Proves to Be Personable, Piquant Mimic Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 19 Oct 1947: C1.
^ The Life Story of TERRY MOORE Picture Show; London Vol. 57, Iss. 1491, (Oct 27, 1951): 12.
^ Elia Kazan to Direct 'Port of Entry;' Terry Moore Wins Bright Lead Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 21 Oct 1949: B9.
^ Brevoort, Tom; Gilbert, Laura, eds. (2008). "1950s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-756-64123-8.
^ "GCD :: Issue :: My Diary #2". comics.org.
^ Terry Moore to Debut in CinemaScope; Jean Hagen Headed for Stage Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 24 Feb 1953: B7.
^ CURTIZ TO DIRECT 'COVERED WAGON': Paramount Remake of Silent Epic Will Have New Plot -- Terry Moore in Fox Film By THOMAS M. PRYORSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York Times 23 June 1953: 25.
^ Terry Moore May Do Own TV Show; Rams Set on TV Ames, Walter. Los Angeles Times 6 July 1956: B6.
^ Terry Moore: Life After Howard: Mrs. Hughes Renews Her Celebrity Actress Terry Moore And Her 'Scheme' For the Spotlight By Mesan Rosenfeld. The Washington Post 28 June 1983: C1.
^ McCarthy, Todd (2000). Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood. Grove Press. p. 659. ISBN 978-0-8021-3740-1.
^ ^a ^b "Actress Terry Moore wins part of Hughes' wealth". The Telegraph. May 25, 1983.
^ ^a ^b "Howard Hughes Kept Scores of Secrets, and Terry Moore Claims She Was One of Them". People.com. April 26, 1976. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
^ Brewton, Pete (September 5, 1981). "Jury Divvies Howard Hughes' Fortune After an Heir Raid in Texas Court". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Endrst, James (July 9, 2000). "Howard Hughes' widow clinging to the memories of the recluse". Deseret News. The Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
^ Moore v. Neff, 629 S.W.2d 827 (Tex. Ct. App. 1982).
^ ^a ^b Hack, Richard (2007). Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Phoenix Books. p. 387. ISBN 978-1597775496. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
^ Scott, Vernon. "Howard Hughes' 'wife' claims settlement". UPI.com. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
^ Ford, Peter. Glenn Ford: A Life (Wisconsin Film Studies). Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. p.258 ISBN 978-0-29928-154-0