Mary Tyler Moore’s ‘conflict’ with ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ co-stars revealed
nypost.comDick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.Marie’s daughter, Georgiana “Noopy” Guy Rodrigues, recently got candid about the issues that occurred between the former child star, Moore (who died in 2017) and Van Dyke, 97.“Mary was up and coming,” Rodrigues told Fox News. “There was a little bit of conflict between my mother and Mary on the show.” She counted: “Originally, my mother was told that the show was about the writers.
And then as the show progressed, it started to go more toward the home life with Dick and Mary.”“They never became close,” Rodrigues added of her mother and Moore’s relationship. “The Dick Van Dyke Show” ran on the network for five seasons, beginning in 1961 and ending in 1966.The series followed the “Mary Poppins” alum as Rob Petrie, a writer of a comedy show produced in New York City, as well as the lives of his family and coworkers.
Moore portrayed his wife, Laura, while Marie played man-hungry typist and writer Sally Rogers.The vaudeville starlet spoke to The Post months before her passing about what her friendship with the “Ordinary People” star was actually like on set. “We were friendly enough but we weren’t very close,” she said at the time.
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