Leading Ladies Terry Moore
Between Heaven And Hell/ Jenny Gifford
Mighty Joe Young/ Jill Young
Come Back, Little Sheba/ Marie Buckholder
King Of The Khyber Rifles/ Susan maitland
Per Quinlan's Film Stars:
Brigh, bubbly, petite, light haired American actress, a former child model who played several teenage roles before catching the public eye as the girl in Mighty Joe Young. She enjoyed a few years of stardom after this before beginning to slip. Received an Oscar nomination for Come Back Little Sheba.
She was born Helen Luella Koford in 1929 at Los Angeles, CA.
Ms. Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles.
Before making her film debut in the film Maryland in 1940 she worked as a child model.
She began using the name Terry Moore in 1948 and had previously been billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford and January Ford.
During the 1940's Ms. Moore worked on the radio on various series but is most known for the radio series The Smith's Of Hollywood.
She worked steadily in films during the 1950's receiving an Oscar nomination for her work in Come Back Little Sheba. But by the 1960's her film career had faltered, appearing less and less in films and more on television.
Some of Terry Moore's film roles were:
Maryland (1940) in Uncredited Role
The Howards Of Virginia (1940) as Neighbor Girl
On The Sunny Side (1942) as Little Girl
My Gal Sal (1942) as Carry Drieser
A Haunting We Will Go (1942) as Dante's Young Admirer
Gaslight (1944) as Paula Alquist (age 14)
The Clock (1944) as Girl At Museum
Son Of Lassie (1945) as Thea
Shadowed (1946) as Ginny Johnson
The Devil On Wheels (1947) as Rusty Davis
Summer Holiday (1947) as Hatcheck Girl
The Return Of October (1948) as Thea Ramsey
Mighty Joe Young (1949) as Jill Young
The Great Rupert (1950) as Rosalinda Armendola
He's A Cockeyed Wonder (1950) as Judy Sears
Gambling House (1950) as Lynn Warren
Two Of A Kind (1951) as Kathy McIntyre
Sunny Side Of The Street (1951) as Betty Holloway
The Barefoot Mailman (1951) as Adle Titus
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) as marie Buckholder
Man On A Tightrope (1953) as Tereza Cernik
Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953) as Gwyneth Rhys
King Of The Khyber Rifles (1953) as Susan Maitland
Daddy Long Legs (1955) as Linda Pendleton
Shack Out On 101 (1955) as Kotty
Postmark For Danger (1955) as Allison Ford
Between Heaven And Hell (1956) as Jenny Gifford
Bernadine (1957) as Jean Cantrick
Peyton Place (1957) as Betty Anderson
A Private's Affair (1959) as Louise Wright
Cast A Long Shadow (1959) as Janet Calvert
Platinum High School (1960) as Jennifer Evans
Why Must I Die? (1960) as Lois King
Black Spurs (1965) as Anna Elkins
Town Tamer (1965) as Susan Tavenner
City Of Fear (1965) as Suzan
Waco (1966) as Dolly
A Man Called Dagger (1968) as Harper Davis
Quarantined (1970-TV) as Martha Atkinson
The Daredevil (1972) as Julie Thompson
Smashup On Interstate 5 (1976-TV) as Trudy
Death Dimension (1978) as madam marie
Double Exposure (1983) as Married Woman
Hellhole (1985) as Sidnee Hammond
Death Blow: A Cry For Justice (1987) as Mrs. McCormick
Going Overboard (1989) as Mistress
American Boyfriends (1989) as Al Walker
Beverly Hill Brats (1989) as Veronica
Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989-TV) as Sally
American Southern (1995) as Peggin
Second Chances (1998) as Dallas Judd
Mighty Joe Young (1998) as Elegant Woman At Party
Final Voyage (1999) as Christina
Stage Ghost (2000) as Olive
Sweet Deadly Dreams (2006) as Maddie
The Still Life (2006) as Mrs. Stratford
Kill Your Darlings (2006) as Ella Toscana
Dewitt & Maria (2010) as Terry
Margarine Wars (2012) as Miriam Cunningham
Looking For Mr. Right (2014-TV) as Instructor
Mansion Of Blood (2015) as Natalie
Army In A Cage (2016) as Granma Micry
Enforcer (2015-16- TV Miniseries as Nazani Minassian
Ms. Moore has been active on television appearing in such programs as The Ford Television Theater, The United States Steel Hour, The Twentieth Century Fox Hour, General Electric Theater, Playhouse 90, Climax, Studio One In Hollywood, Rawhide, The Red Skelton Hour, Checkmate, The Rebel, Empire, Burke's Law, My Three Sons, Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater, The Virginian, Batman, Bonanza, Matt Houston, Knight Rider, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, True Confessions, Wiseguy, Murder She Wrote, True Detective, Planet E and Ray Donova.
Ms. Moore has been married 5 times. Her last husband was Jerry Rivers and the marriage lasted from 1992 until his death in 2001. She has two children from her third husband Stuart Cramer named Stuart IV and Grant.
I enjoyed Ms. Moore in Mighty Joe Young ( especially) as well other films namely Come Back Little Sheba, Beneath The 12 Mile Reef, King Of The Khyber Rifles, Between Heaven And Hell and Cast A Long Shadow.
Louie The Movie Buff