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. 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; she received an Oscar nomination for her performance in Paramount's Come Back, Little Sheba. 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.



Measurements: 35 1/2-23-35 (September 1953) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine). Mother of actor Grant Cramer, star of the cult classic Hardbodies (1984). Grandmother of actress/reporter/host Alexandra Cramer. At the age of 81 she still takes acting classes twice a week.