Nora on Mary Tyler Moore DVD - just released season 6
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imdb050106 — 16 years ago(February 06, 2010 07:47 AM)
Just saw Nora Heflin on the first episode of the just-released sixth season of the Mary Tyler Moore show -
She played Lou Grant's daughter in the episode where Lou's ex-wife, Edie, remarries..(an important role, since Lou's daughters are frequently talked about but never seen).
She had a real presence on the screen, and wow, did her outfit ever bring back 70's memories - a denim overall-top dress, with a brown floral shirt underneath. Loved that style back then! Feminine, yet practical looking.
She really did look like Lou Grant's daughter, same face and body build. Maybe they were trying her out for a continuing role on the show, similar to the role Sheree North had.
Many of the most interesting people played these kinds of character roles on both the MTM show, and the original Bob Newhart show. On one of the commentaries on the DVD, the director said that they often got people from Broadway, because of their acting experience in front of a live audience, as opposed to the character players in Hollywood, who were used to working only in front of cameras.
More often than not, when you Google these actors, it leads to the all kinds of social and career tangents.
Like Nora!! I thought there would be some connection between Nora and Van Heflin, and there was -she is his niece. But, I didn't know that she was the daughter of Frances Heflin, who played Erica Kane's mother on All My Children..
It's amazing the background connections between people in show biz, and the way talent clusters in their families.
Yes, Nora just turned 60 a few days ago - probably is marriedAll search references lead back to her career which apparently she abandoned in 1994
..the same year her mother died, coincidentally.
Was Frances Heflin a driven, obsessed stage mother who pushed her daughter Nora relentlessly into show biz??
and when she passed Nora fled Hollywood for a cult or a commune or a wealthy heir from Monaco?
the same daughter who was last seen on 9/9/99 walking along Central Park Southnever to be seen again??
..Tune in tomorrow for another episode of All My Children.. -
BugisStreetAnnie — 9 years ago(January 26, 2017 08:34 PM)
I was watching the Mary Tyler Moore episode today remembering Mary (R.I.P.). She does certainly look like she could be Lou Grants daughter. I wonder whatever happened to her?
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