# Teri Garr RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 29, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414 "2024-10-29T17:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/1 "2024-10-29T17:55:40Z")
Aww, I really liked her. She always played nice but funny characters, sort of like Georgia Engle, but less ditzy. Fuck multiple sclerosis. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/2 "2024-10-29T17:57:43Z")
Goddamn it. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/3 "2024-10-29T18:05:56Z")
Damn, damn, damn. Another one of my early crushes is gone. ☹ I’ve been smitten with her since Star Trek. > ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/4 "2024-10-29T18:08:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/5 "2024-10-29T18:12:27Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Another one of my early crushes is gone. Same here. > [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I’ve been smitten with her since Star Trek. I was going to say that. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/6 "2024-10-29T18:13:09Z")
I was watching her in Tootsie today as I ate lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/7 "2024-10-29T18:19:49Z")
I just showed _Young Frankenstein_ to my kids. Still an absolute hoot and she’s a big part of why. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/8 "2024-10-29T18:20:36Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I just showed _Young Frankenstein_ to my kids. Still an absolute hoot and she’s a big part of why. [“Vould you like to have a roll in zee hay?”](https://youtu.be/srOd82nsWps?si=_rPLiXdnzQ0pkaln) 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 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/9 "2024-10-29T18:24:09Z")
She was like that special herb or spice that added that extra something to the films she was in. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/10 "2024-10-29T18:47:57Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I just showed _Young Frankenstein_ to my kids. Still an absolute hoot and she’s a big part of why. > > RIP. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/11 "2024-10-29T18:58:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/12 "2024-10-29T19:05:17Z")
She was great as Richard Dreyfuss’ wife in Close Encounters. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/13 "2024-10-29T19:06:46Z")
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! 🥰 [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTdiMTEwOTYtZjkxMS00MTY3LWIyNzQtMmZhYjFmMzRkNzkyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDEwNTk0NA@@._V1_.jpg/) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTdiMTEwOTYtZjkxMS00MTY3LWIyNzQtMmZhYjFmMzRkNzkyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDEwNTk0NA@@._V1_.jpg/) RIP, Teri! ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/14 "2024-10-29T19:07:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/15 "2024-10-29T19:08:14Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/16 "2024-10-29T19:08:20Z")
The underappreciated movie **Dick** is worth a watch. Her role is small, but she totally nails it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/17 "2024-10-29T19:14:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/18 "2024-10-29T19:20:26Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > I was watching her in Tootsie today as I ate lunch. 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. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/19 "2024-10-29T19:27:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/20 "2024-10-29T19:44:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > her experience on _ **Star Trek** _ was apparently not very good. 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.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414.md?page=2)