To those no longer with us....

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Postby BogDog » Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:13 pm

Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," has died. She was 79.

Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in recent years, underwent an operation in January 2007 to repair an aneurysm.


Like many of us, I was first introduced to her on Star Trek.
https://youtu.be/RdprKxOHfys

The actor, who was sometimes credited as Terri, Terry or Terry Ann during her long career, seemed destined for show business from her childhood.

Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian; her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dance lessons at 6 and by 14 was dancing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies.

She was 16 when she joined the road company of "West Side Story" in Los Angeles, and as early as 1963 she began appearing in bit parts in films.

She recalled in a 1988 interview how she won the "West Side Story" role. After being dropped from her first audition, she returned a day later in different clothes and was accepted.

From there, the blonde, statuesque Garr found steady work dancing in movies, and she appeared in the chorus of nine Presley films, including "Viva Las Vegas," "Roustabout" and "Clambake."

She also appeared on numerous television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance T.A.M.I. and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”

Her big film break came as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in 1974’s Francis Ford Coppola thriller “The Conversation.” That led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who said he would hire her for the role of Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant in 1974’s “Young Frankenstein” — if she could speak with a German accent.

“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once recalled.

The film established her as a talented comedy performer, with New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael proclaiming her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on the screen.”

Her big smile and off-center appeal helped land her roles in “Oh God!” opposite George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife) and “Tootsie” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and learns that he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career. (She also lost the supporting actress Oscar at that year’s Academy Awards to Lange.)

Although best known for comedy, Garr showed in such films as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “The Black Stallion” and “The Escape Artist” that she could handle drama equally well.
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby PA Jack » Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:42 pm

Just saw this on line now and was very sad. Young Frankenstein was a total cut-up, but I also liked her in Mr. Mom and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. What struck me most was watching her being interviewed on talk shows - she was totally natural and un-self-involved. Also a natural good sense of humor. RIP.
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby OBI-wan » Tue Oct 29, 2024 6:22 pm

Damn
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby BogDog » Wed Oct 30, 2024 3:40 am

"Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne

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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby MadMax359 » Wed Oct 30, 2024 6:19 am

BogDog wrote:A favorite moment.

https://youtu.be/ZKCgtTSL6QQ



excellent! as she said at breakfast... Woof!
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby PA Jack » Wed Oct 30, 2024 6:22 am

I forgot about her role as John Denver’s supportive wife in “Oh God” (saw it so long ago now). Another good one.
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby BogDog » Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:09 pm

I have not seen Oh God since the 1970s MAYBE once in the early 1980s but not sure. Now that George, John and now Terri are all gone I'd say it's time to watch it again.
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby OBI-wan » Fri Nov 01, 2024 12:56 pm

Paul Sorvino was also in that movie.
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Re: To those no longer with us....

Postby OBI-wan » Mon Nov 04, 2024 1:16 pm

Quincy Jones 91
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Postby mudmaiden » Mon Nov 04, 2024 6:08 pm

Music industry titan Quincy Jones, who produced some of Michael Jackson’s best-known albums and collaborated with legends including Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, passed away at age 91, media outlets reported Monday.
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