Teri Garr RIP

Aww, I really liked her.

She always played nice but funny characters, sort of like Georgia Engle, but less ditzy.

Fuck multiple sclerosis.

Goddamn it.

Damn, damn, damn. Another one of my early crushes is gone. :frowning: I’ve been smitten with her since Star Trek.

I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy her talents my entire life; from the Sonny and Cher show to Friends.
RIP, you funny, funny lady.

Same here.

I was going to say that.

I was watching her in Tootsie today as I ate lunch.

I just showed Young Frankenstein to my kids. Still an absolute hoot and she’s a big part of why.

RIP.

“Vould you like to have a roll in zee hay?”

She was a frequent and always entertaining guest on Late Night and The Late Show with Letterman. She also had a brief but memorable early role in Coppola’s overlooked The Conversation as Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul’s casual girlfriend, who knows far more about his supposedly secret life than he realizes.

Stranger

She was like that special herb or spice that added that extra something to the films she was in.

We watched it this past weekend. She played the role so earnestly that it was funny.

Now I’m afraid who’s going to die when I watch another Mel Brooks movie.

I whenever I see larger door knockers I think of the scene from Young Frankenstein.

Frankenstein: What knockers!
Inga: Oh! Thank you doctor.

I was always happy to see Garr in something. She retired more than a decade ago, but she’ll be missed.

She was great as Richard Dreyfuss’ wife in Close Encounters.

She was in a few episodes of That Girl, usually as another aspiring actress opposite Marlo Thomas.

I know who I’d pick from this lineup if I were a casting official! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

RIP, Teri!

I first saw her in Young Frankenstein, and then in the early 80s she co-starred in a movie that was shot in my little hometown in northern NJ. It was a big deal for us, although the movie, First Born, wasn’t a hit. R.I.P.

Always loved her in anything she did. She could have just done the ditzy blonde shtick but she alway had an underlying something that elevated her performances.

Mandela moment. I could swear she was in a video for “No one Told Me About Her”

The underappreciated movie Dick is worth a watch. Her role is small, but she totally nails it.

The first time I saw her was in an episode of It Takes a Thief. She played a cute airline stewardess who agreed to meet Al Mundy (Robert Wagner) for a drink, but he kept breaking the date because of problems associated with his role as a secret agent. At the end of the episode, IIRC, she was so POed that she pushed him off a pier into the Mediterranean.

She deserved more credit than she got for her acting skill: in Young Frankenstein she was completely convincing as the Hot Chick, and in Tootsie she was completely convincing as the hard-luck woman with no confidence. (And in that one, instead of being despised as the Rival (to heroine Jessica Lange), she added a level of humanity to that movie that’s still touching.)

It’s something of a shame that her Star Trek episode, a back-door pilot, didn’t get picked up as a series. If it had been Garr might have achieved even greater career recognition (and financial security). On the other hand, anything that could potentially have kept her out of Young Frankenstein would have been regrettable.

She might not have signed on as Roberta Lincoln, since her experience on Star Trek was apparently not very good. It was actually so bad that she refused to talk about it afterwards.

I guess we’ll never know what the issue was (since she didn’t want to talk about it). (Though many familiar with the series and what was said about Roddenberry might guess ‘sexual harassment’ was involved.)