Date of Birth

7 January 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Helen Luella Koford

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

Terry Moore made her film debut at age 11 and grew up with all the icons of the Hollywood era that made Hollywood what it is today... glamour and all that jazz. Moore is an Academy Award nominated actress with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has starred in 77 feature films and listed among her leading men are Hollywood's leading legends; including, Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Glenn Ford, Mickey Rooney and Robert Wagner. Because Terry was married to Howard Hughes, and since she was a pilot herself, Terry played a major role in preparing Leonardo DiCaprio for his interpretation of Howard Hughes in "The Aviator".

After Howard Hughes 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, star of the cult classic Hardbodies (1984).

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures" (Midnight Marquee Press, 1996).

Grandmother of actress/reporter/host Alexandra Cramer.

Close friends with Jane Russell, Lee Phillip Bell and Ann Jeffreys.

At the age of 81 she still takes acting classes twice a week.

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