the winsome 30-something protagonist of The Mary Tyler Moore Show — a sitcom that won 29 Emmys and made "career women" palatable to audiences unused to the idea. Moore dazzled with her smile.

Jack De Mave, who portrayed a U.S. forest ranger on Lassie and an unconventional date for Valerie Harper's Rhoda Morgenstern on the second episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died.

Moore had two major TV roles, first as America’s sweetheart, vivacious housewife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (1961 to ’66), then as America’s first real representation of a single career ...