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Terry Moore
  • Birth Name:
    Helen Luella Koford
  • Date of Birth:
    January 7, 1929
  • Place of Birth:
    Glendale, California
  • Height:
    5' 2"
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

Terry Moore
  • Spouse:
    Glenn Davis - Divorced
    Eugene McGrath - Divorced
    Stuart Cramer - Divorced
    Richard Carey -
    Jerry Rivers - Deceased
  • Son:
    Grant Cramer

Career

Terry Moore

Trivia

Terry Moore
  • November 2008, Attended an event at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre marking the 50th anniversary of the untimely passing of actor Tyrone Power.
  • Four of his films were screened: Love Is News (1937), The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Razor's Edge (1946) and Nightmare Alley (1947).
  • 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.
  • Throughout the 1940s, she worked under a variety of names (her own, Judy Ford and January Ford) before settling on Terry Moore in 1948.
  • Placed under contract by Columbia, Moore was loaned out to RKO for one of her most famous films, RKO's Mighty Joe Young (1949); she received an Oscar nomination for her performance in Paramount's Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
  • In the 1970s, she was in the news more than she was in motion pictures, asserting that she was the secret wife of the late billionaire Howard Hughes.

Quotes

Terry Moore
  • "I hate silicone, because now everyone can have what I have."
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Biography

Terry Moore
Last Updated: Friday, August 21, 2009
Born Helen Koford, the Los Angeles, California, native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century Fox's Maryland (1940). Moore was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948.

Filmography

Terry Moore

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