SAG Awards: Mary Tyler Moore to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honors

75-year-old actress, who, as Mary Richards, "turned the world on with her smile" in his groundbreaking comedy, 1970's "Mary Tyler Moore Show," received an award for lifetime achievement at the 18th annual awards Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild.

"MTM. There's probably no person in the civilized world who does not know what that means," said Dick Van Dyke, her former co-star in an equally attractive 1960s sit-com "Dick Van Dyke Show "as he presented it.

He noted the achievements of Moore as an Oscar-nominated actress, dancer and Hollywood executive who MTM Enterprises has released several other hit television show.

When she accepted her award, Moore showed how the civilized world is almost never heard of MTM, which was the opening theme song is told in her show every week, "Are you going to do it in the end."

When she entered show business at age 18 in 1955, Moore said there were six other Mary Moores of the Screen Actors Guild.

Told to change her name, she quickly added, Tyler, and her middle name and her father, George.

"I was a Mary Tyler Moore. I said it out loud. The Mary Tyler Moore. It sounded right so I recorded it on a form, and it looked right," she said. "He was right. SAG was happy, my father was happy, and tonight, after the privilege of working in this business, one of the most creative and talented people, you can imagine, I am too happy in the end."

Before the awards show Van Dyke stopped at the red carpet to remember when working with Moore on his show.

"She was 23 and had never done comedy. I've never seen someone pick it up so quickly. I'm still in love with her," he said.

The audience shows, including Moore's former co-star Betty White, covered her and Van Dyke with an ovation, which leads Van Dyke, to remind them: "I'm just leading."

Van Dyke and Moore were so believable as husband and wife, Rob and Laura Petrie on the "Dick Van Dyke Show", which many viewers thought they were married in real life.

As Laura Petrie, Moore turned to Capri fashion trend for the entire show.

Van Dyke noted that they comply with it so well that we have created such concern that a more conservative era, it was limited to only wear them in one scene in the show.

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