# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/21 "2024-10-29T19:52:04Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > The underappreciated movie **Dick** is worth a watch. Her role is small, but she totally nails it. That’s the one I was going to mention. My sister just re-watched _All the President’s Men_ the other night, and I said TCM should have done a double feature with _Dick._ Very funny movie, and Teri Garr was just right in her smaller part. Sadly, you could tell the MS was affecting her. She was just so **likable**. Guys here are describing her as a crush, but I think most women liked her, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/22 "2024-10-29T19:53:55Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I just showed _Young Frankenstein_ to my kids. Still an absolute hoot Just watched YF 2 days ago. My reaction was quite different from yours. Not at all funny - not even the 10 or s jokes I remembered as hysterical. But Teri sure was cute! ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/23 "2024-10-29T20:02:41Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Just watched YF 2 days ago. My reaction was quite different from yours. Not at all funny - not even the 10 or s jokes I remembered as hysterical. I find it’s more fun to remember and quote Mel Brooks’ movies than it is to watch them these days. It’s been a while since I’ve seen YF, but I feel that way about Blazing Saddles, Space Balls, Dracula: Dead & Loving It, etc., etc. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/24 "2024-10-29T20:03:34Z")
Time to go watch _Viva Las Vegas_ again. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/25 "2024-10-29T20:08:38Z")
In fact, she appeared (uncredited) in 5 Elvis movies. ---
**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, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/26 "2024-10-29T20:10:46Z")
According to one author, Roddenberry took a personal interest in her wardrobe and saw to it that her skirt was shortened. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/27 "2024-10-29T20:13:47Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I find it’s more fun to remember and quote Mel Brooks’ movies than it is to watch them these days. We agree completely. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/28 "2024-10-29T20:14:22Z")
Great actress and great lady. Bummer ---
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/29 "2024-10-29T20:15:46Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Teri sure was cute! I remember when she doffed her dressing gown in the spoof miniseries _ **Fresno** _ to reveal she had a frilly teddy on underneath. My girlfriend at the time reached out and tried to change the channel when she saw my reaction to that! ---
**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, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/30 "2024-10-29T20:23:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > According to one author, Roddenberry took a personal interest in her wardrobe and saw to it that her skirt was shortened. That seems to fit with other things said about him, by several people. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/31 "2024-10-29T20:26:10Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > The underappreciated movie **Dick** is worth a watch. I’m guessing that googling that without some modifiers would be a mistake. Very sad at her passing. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/32 "2024-10-29T20:49:00Z")
I think I always enjoyed her when she showed up in a film. Here’s a great interview with her in the AV club > **[Random Roles: Teri Garr](https://www.avclub.com/teri-garr-1798214431)** > > Random Roles: Teri Garr ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/33 "2024-10-29T20:55:13Z")
She was a frquent guest on David Letterman’s Late Night, and often without anything to promote, because she’s Teri Garr and a good sport about the kind of borderline harrassing Dave would dish out, because again, Teri Garr. Then one night he did go too far and kept begging her to take a shower in his office bath, on TV, and she said no and he kept goading her. I’m not sure whether she ever appeared on the show again. I would have walked. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/34 "2024-10-29T21:00:56Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > In fact, she appeared (uncredited) in 5 Elvis movies. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1IOGVbOQuvU/maxresdefault.jpg "Teri Garr in Elvis Presley Movies") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOGVbOQuvU&t=15) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/35 "2024-10-29T21:04:56Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Now I’m afraid who’s going to die when I watch another Mel Brooks movie. I was thinking Garr’s death left Gene Hackman as the only surviving on-screen cast member from _Young Frankenstein_. But I checked and I’m wrong. I’m surprised to see that character actor Monte Landis, whose career goes all the way back to the fifties, is still alive at 91. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/36 "2024-10-29T21:27:45Z")
The things actors have to do in their early years in order to eat regularly. There’s a musical video somewhere with Jason Statham as a shirtless back-up dancer. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/37 "2024-10-29T21:31:39Z")
I think Anne Beesley, the little girl who doesn’t get thrown in the well, is also still alive. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/38 "2024-10-29T22:42:38Z")
Teri was very good in Tootsie. I first noticed her in _McCloud_ with Dennis Weaver. It was a small role. RIP [![](https://wcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Teri-Garr-career.png) ](https://wcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Teri-Garr-career.png) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/39 "2024-10-29T22:45:01Z")
If you find yourself watching anything from the mid-1960s with dancers (a beach party movie, a variety show, a teen music show like Shindig or Hulabaloo, etc.) you have a better than even chance of spotting Teri Garr - and if you do, the short-haired brunet next to her is probably Toni Basil. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DX6yDAFI990/hqdefault.jpg "Pajama Party (1964) with Dorothy Lamour, Toni Basil and Teri Garr") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX6yDAFI990) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/40 "2024-10-29T22:57:43Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > 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. The thing about _Young Frankenstein_ is that she’s not ditzy; naive, but not stupid. So many funny roles for women are written to the dumb-blonde stereotype. It was great to see a role that didn’t follow that trope. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If you find yourself watching anything from the mid-1960s with dancers (a beach party movie, a variety show, a teen music show like Shindig or Hulabaloo, etc.) you have a better than even chance of spotting Teri Garr - and if you do, the short-haired brunet next to her is probably Toni Basil. There’s a concert movie from 1964 called _The T.A.M.I. Show_ that’s worth a watch. Lots of icons in their early days. I think Mick Jagger said the biggest mistake the Stones ever made was trying to follow James Brown on stage. And yes, Garr and Basil are both in it as dancers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414.md?page=3)