Mary Tyler Moore

Alyssa Leary, of Minneapolis, placed flowers at the base of a life-size bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore at the Minneapolis Visitor Center Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Moore, 80, died Wednesday. The statue depicts her tossing her tam into the air as she did in the opening credits of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which featured Moore as Mary Richards working for a fictional Minneapolis television station.

Mary Tyler Moore holds her Emmys at the 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, on May 28, 1974. Moore won best actress of the year in a comedy series and best actress in a television series for her role in the "Mary Tyler Moore Show."

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" co-stars Ed Asner, left, Betty White, Mary Tyler Moore and Ted Knight all won awards at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Shubert Theatre on May 17, 1976 in Los Angeles.

Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, co-stars of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," pose backstage at the Palladium with the Emmys won in the Television Academys 16th annual awards show, May 25, 1964, Los Angeles. They won the best actor and actress in a series with their Emmys.

Participants in the television comedy series "The Dick Van Dyke Show" pose with their awards at the 16th Annual Emmy Awards in Hollywood on May 25, 1964. Left to right are: Richard Deacon; Mary Tyler Moore, Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series, Lead; Dick Van Dyke, Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series, Lead; Sheldon Leonard, producer of the show, which was named best comedy series; Carl Reiner, Outstanding Writing Achievement in a Series; and Jerry Paris, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy.

Mary Tyler Moore, 25, and NBC Vice President Grant Tinker were married on June 1, 1962 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the second marriage for both the actress and her 36-year-old husband. Immediately following the wedding in the Dunes Hotel the couple left on a secret honeymoon.

Actresses Mary Tyler Moore, left, Cloris Leachman and Valerie Harper are not only talented cast members of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", they also contributed to the successful breakthrough of a new style of series in which the old situation comedy hang-ups about women are gone.

Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore and Ed Asner hold one of the Television Critics Circle Awards presented to them on Monday, April 11, 1977 at ceremonies in Los Angeles. Alda tied with Asner for achievement in comedy-male, while Mary Tyler Moore won for achievement in comedy-female. Ed Asner also won the supporting male acting award for his acting in Roots.

Mary Tyler Moore, right, teams up with comedienne Lucille Ball at a party in New York, March 1, 1980, marking the departure of Ball's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, from the Broadway musical, "They're Playing Our Song." Moore was starring on Broadway in the play, "Whose Life Is It Anyway?"

TV news commentator Walter Cronkite, right, meets with Ted Baxter and Mary Tyler Moore in his appearance on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 4, 1974.

Carol Burnett, center, and Mary Tyler Moore, who both tied for the Favorite Female TV Performer award, accept their People's Choice Awards from actor Ed Asner, in Los Angeles, March 7, 1979.

Mary Tyler Moore, center, dances with a group of New York City policemen and school children, in New York, May 14, 1983. The group was rehearsing for the National Dance Institute’s upcoming “Event of the Year.

Mary Tyler Moore, left, in New York, Oct. 27, 1986.

Actress Mary Tyler Moore testifies before a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies appropriations subcommittee hearing at Capitol Hill, Monday, May 4, 1987 in Washington.

Mary Tyler Moore is seen at the 53rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles, March 31, 1981. Moore, nominated for Best Actress for her film "Ordinary People," lost out to Sissy Spacek for "Coal Miner's Daughter."

Dick Van Dyke breaks up as Mary Tyler Moore yells “Oooooh Rob,” something she used to do during their years together on “"The Dick Van Dyke” Show," at the 40th annual Emmy awards in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 29, 1988.

Mary Tyler Moore, right, is joined by former “"Mary Tyler Moore Show"” co-star Georgia Engel, who played Georgette, at New York'’s Russian Tea Room, Aug. 30, 1992. The two reunited during an Emmy Awards screening party Moore hosted at the famous New York restaurant.

Mary Tyler Moore reacts to fans and media after being honored with her star on Hollywood's famed walk, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1992 in Los Angeles. Moore, who has won five Emmy Awards for her work in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show,", was given the 1,963rd star on the famous walk. Moore was also nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "Ordinary People."

Veteran television actress Mary Tyler Moore arrives at the 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998.

Mary Tyler Moore, right, tosses her hat out to the crowd after the a bronze statue of her famous hat toss, left, was unveiled Wednesday, May 8, 2002, on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. Thousands of people gathered to see the statue which captures Moore tossing her hat in the intersection where she originally twirled around in the opening of her 1970s hit television series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

Mary Tyler Moore is mirrored by a bronze statue of herself as she waves to a helicopter flying overhead after the unveiling of the statue capturing her flinging her tam in Minneapolis, Wednesday, May 8, 2002. A crowd of about 2,000 gathered for the unveiling at the intersection in downtown Minneapolis where Moore originally twirled in the opening for her 1970's television hit, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

Mary Tyler Moore arrives for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008.

Mary Tyler Moore waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Type 1 Diabetes Research.

Actresses Mary Tyler Moore, Bernadette Peters and Angela Lansbury pose with dogs up for adoption at Broadway Barks 11 in New York, Saturday, July 11, 2009.