Mary Tyler Moore turns 78 today (Dec. 29, 2014).

Did you know that she started her career as Happy Hotpoint, a diminutive dancing elf in ads for Hotpoint appliances? See 19-year-old Mary in the first 15 seconds of this video.

Hotpoint dishwasher commercial (1956)

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