Terry Moore (actress)

Terry Moore
Terry Moore in Peyton Place (1957)
Born	Helen Luella Koford (1929-01-07) January 7, 1929 (age 88) Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names	Judy Ford, Jan Ford, January Ford
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1940–present
Spouse(s)	Glenn Davis (1951-52; dissolved) Eugene McGarth (1956-58; divorced) Stuart Cramer (1959-72; divorced) Richard Carey (1979-80; divorced) Jerry Rivers (1992-2001; his death)
Partner(s)	Howard Hughes (1949-1976; disputed)
Children	Stuart Warren Cramer IV (b. 1960) Grant Cramer

Helen Luella Koford (born January 7, 1929), known as Terry Moore, is an American film and television actress.

Born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, as Helen Luella Koford, Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland in 1940. Moore was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948.

Moore worked in radio in the 1940s, most memorably as Bumps Smith on The Smiths of Hollywood. She has starred in several box-office hits, including Mighty Joe Young (1949), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), and Peyton Place (1957). She appeared on the cover of Life magazine for July 6, 1953, as "Hollywood's sexy tomboy". Moore's photo was used on the cover of the second issue of the My Diary romance comic book (cover dated March 1950).

During the 1950s, Moore worked steadily in films such as The Great Rupert (1950), Two of a Kind (1951), Man on a Tightrope (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Between Heaven and Hell (1956), Bernardine (1957), A Private's Affair (1959), and Why Must I Die? (1960).

By the 1960s, Moore's film career had faltered. She had begun to appear less frequently in films. However, she did make films such as Platinum High School (1960), She Should Have Stayed in Bed (1963), Black Spurs (1965), Town Tamer (1965), Waco (1966), and A Man Called Dagger (1967). Lacking film roles, Moore appeared on television. In 1962, she appeared as a rancher's daughter in the NBC western Empire. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.