Moore on the cover of Playboy, August 1984

Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford, January 7, 1929) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. Image File history File links Playboy August 1984 This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. ... Image File history File links Playboy August 1984 This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. ... The first issue of Playboy. ... January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Early life

Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland (1940). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Mormonism. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ...

Career

Throughout the 1940s, Moore worked under a variety of names before settling on Terry Moore in 1948. She worked on and off in radio,most memorably as Bumps Smith on "The Smith's Of Hollywood" alongside Arthur Treacher, Harry Von Zell and Brenda Marshall.(During the run of The Smith's Of Hollywood, Moore used the name Jan Ford). Although cast in mostly B-pictures, she managed to make her mark in several box office hits, including Mighty Joe Young (1949), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) - for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Peyton Place (1957). The original Mighty Joe Young movie poster. ... Come Back, Little Sheba can refer to two things: Come Back, Little Sheba is a play written by American playwright William Inge. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... // The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Peyton Place is a 1957 American motion picture drama based on the bestselling novel by Grace Metalious. ...

Although Moore has worked steadily for the past few decades, her appearances have been in usually minor roles in smaller films.

Private life

Long romantically involved with billionaire Howard Hughes, Moore claimed after his death that they had secretly married in 1949 and never divorced. Although she could offer no definitive proof of her allegation, Hughes's estate paid her a settlement in 1984. At the age of 55 she appeared nude in the August 1984 issue of Playboy magazine. For the Welsh murderer, see Howard Hughes (murderer). ... Playboy is an adult entertainment magazine, or pornography magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ...

She went on to write two books about Hughes:

• Terry Moore - The Beauty and the Billionaire, New York (1984).
• Terry Moore and Jerry Rivers - The Passions of Howard Hughes. General Publishing Group (1996), an audio abridgement is narrated by Terry. She claims that Howard received no medical treatment because he was an abused victim of a conspiracy to take over his empire.

Despite her appearance in Playboy, she describes herself as a "devout Mormon". The first issue of Playboy. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Mormonism. ...

She was also one of the first female jet pilots.

Terry is the mother of actor Grant Cramer. Grant Cramer (b. ...

Filmography

• Maryland (1940)
• The Howards of Virginia (1940) (role unconfirmed)
• My Gal Sal (1942)
• A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
• True to Life (1943)
• Gaslight (1944)
• Since You Went Away (1944)
• Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
• The Clock (1945)
• Son of Lassie (1945)
• Shadowed (1946)
• The Devil On Wheels (1947)
• Heartaches (1947)
• Summer Holiday (1948)
• The Return of October (1948)
• Mighty Joe Young (1949)
• The Great Rupert (1950)
• He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950)
• Gambling House (1951)
• Two of a Kind (1951)
• Sunny Side of the Street (1951)
• The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
• Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
• Man on a Tightrope (1953)
• Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
• King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
• Postmark for Danger (1955)
• Daddy Long Legs (1955)
• Shack Out on 101 (1955)
• Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
• Bernardine (1957)
• Peyton Place (1957)
• A Private's Affair (1959)
• Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
• Platinum High School (1960)
• Why Must I Die? (1960)
• She Should Have Stayed in Bed (1963)
• Black Spurs (1965)
• Town Tamer (1965)
• City of Fear (1965)
• Waco (1966 movie) (1966)
• A Man Called Dagger (1967)
• The Daredevil (1972)
• Death Dimension (1978)
• Double Exposure (1983)
• Hellhole (1985)
• W.A.R.: Women Against Rape (1987)
• Father's Day (1988)
• Going Overboard (1989)
• Beverly Hills Brats (1989) (also producer and writer)
• American Boyfriends (1989)
• American Southern (1995)
• Second Chances (1998)
• Mighty Joe Young (1998)
• Final Voyage (1999)
• Stageghost (2000)
• Sweet Deadly Dreams (2002)
• The Still Life (2005)
• Kill Your Darlings (2005)
• I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005) (documentary)

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External links

• Terry Moore at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site for Terry Moore