Terry Moore's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Hollywood Women (UK) Terry Moore The Real Las Vegas Terry Moore The Name's the Same Terry Moore

Main Movie Roles 2006 - Kill Your Darlings 1998 - Mighty Joe Young 1989 - Going Overboard 1985 - Hellhole 1978 - Death Dimension 1965 - City of Fear 1957 - Peyton Place 1955 - Shack Out on 101 1955 - Daddy Long Legs 1953 - Beneath the 12-Mile Reef 1953 - King of the Khyber Rifles 1951 - Two of a Kind 1949 - Mighty Joe Young 1948 - Summer Holiday 1945 - Son of Lassie 1944 - Gaslight 1944 - Since You Went Away

BIOGRAPHY:

Born Helen Koford, the Los Angeles, California, native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century Fox's Maryland (1940). Throughout the 1940s, she worked under a variety of names (her own, Judy Ford and January Ford) before settling on Terry Moore in 1948. Placed under contract by Columbia, Moore was loaned out to RKO for one of her most famous films, RKO's Mighty Joe Young (1949); she received an Oscar nomination for her performance in Paramount's Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). In the 1970s, she was in the news more than she was in motion pictures, asserting that she was the secret wife of the late billionaire Howard Hughes (I).


TRIVIA:

• Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures" (Midnight Marquee Press, 1996).
• Measurements: 35 1/2-23-35 (September 1953) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
• Grandmother of actress/reporter/host 'Alexandra Cramer' (qv).
• After 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv) died, she claimed that the pair had secretly married on a yacht in international waters off the coast of Mexico in 1949 and never divorced. Despite the fact that Moore married two other men while she was still "married" to Hughes, his estate paid her an undisclosed settlement in 1984.
• Mother of actor 'Grant Cramer' (qv), star of the cult classic _Hardbodies (1984)_ (qv).