When was the female lead of the TV film Blessings born?
Mary Tyler Moore Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a single woman working as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother. Her film work includes 1967's "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and 1980's "Ordinary People", in which she played a role that was very different from the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Loretta Young Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress and singer. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1947 film "The Farmer's Daughter" and received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Come to the Stable" in 1949. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, "The Loretta Young Show", from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards and was rerun successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in "Christmas Dove" in 1986. Young, a devout Roman Catholic, worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.