Terry Moore Biography

Terry Moore has been described as, "one of Hollywood's last legends, bridging the gap to today's market." Aside from her startling and timeless beauty and youthful figure, she is busier today than at any other time in her life. Terry has just completed Second Chances, a feature film in which she co-starred, as well as co-produced. This is her second motion picture that she produced with partner Jerry Rivers, the first being Beverly Hills Brats, with Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Sheen, and Burt Young.

This year Terry is releasing her newest book, Terry Moore's How Do You Stay So Young? Also, this year will see the start of production for the motion picture based on Terry's last book, The Passions of Howard Hughes to be entitled Hughes. Terry is the legal widow of Howard Hughes and has written a previous bestseller entitled The Beauty and the Billionaire about her life and marriage to Mr. Hughes.

Also, Terry has her own talk show making the syndication rounds, called "Terry's World." Terry has already taped interviews with John Travolta, Burt Reynolds, Heather Locklear, Bob Hope, Bo Derek, and many, many other stars.

Terry made her first film at age eleven and has since starred in over sixty films. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Come Back Little Sheba which also starred Burt Lancaster. She won the Manheim Film Festival Award for Why Must I Die. She starred in the first Cinemascope films, The King of the Kyber Rifles opposite Tyrone Power and Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef, opposite Robert Wagner. One of her favorite roles was opposite Fredric March in Man on a Tightrope directed by Elia Kazan. Another favorite was The Return of October opposite Glenn Ford. Terry loved dancing with Fred Astaire in Daddy long Legs and co-starring with Lana Turner in Peyton Place. And who can forget her starring role in the film classic Mighty Joe Young. Terry also shot a cameo role in the remake of Mighty Joe Young for Disney and RKO.

While in her teens, Terry Moore was the number one cover girl in the world with over forty magazine covers in one year. The magazines included Look, Life, Cosmopolitan, American, and Redbook. In 1984, Terry was the cover girl for Playboy, and in 1995 Terry was the cover girl for Longevity magazine with the inscription, "Terry Moore turns back the hands of time."

During the fifties and sixties, Terry did more live television than any other actress, as well as her own TV show, "Empire," which also starred Richard Egan, Ryan O'Neal, and then-newcomer Charles Bronson. Terry has headlined in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel and Union Plaza and has appeared in stage plays in twenty states as well as many foreign countries. She is only the third woman in the world to become a licensed jet pilot. She has been honored with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.