VIDEO : Dick Van Dyke's Tribute to Mary Tyler Moore: 'She Was Just the Best'

Mary Tyler Moore?s big career break came in 1961 when she was cast as Dick Van Dyke?s wife Laura on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Here Van Dyke, now 91, remembers his friend of six decades, who died Wednesday at age 80?.
She was 23 years old, gorgeous of course, and had a kind of mid-Atlantic accent. She sounded a little bit like Katharine Hepburn. My first question was, ?Can this girl do comedy?? After that I said, ?She?s a little young for me.