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.
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!
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.
Time to go watch Viva Las Vegas again.
In fact, she appeared (uncredited) in 5 Elvis movies.
According to one author, Roddenberry took a personal interest in her wardrobe and saw to it that her skirt was shortened.
We agree completely.
Great actress and great lady. Bummer
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!
That seems to fit with other things said about him, by several people.
I’m guessing that googling that without some modifiers would be a mistake.
Very sad at her passing.
I think I always enjoyed her when she showed up in a film.
Here’s a great interview with her in the AV club
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.
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.
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.
I think Anne Beesley, the little girl who doesn’t get thrown in the well, is also still alive.
Teri was very good in Tootsie.
I first noticed her in McCloud with Dennis Weaver. It was a small role.
RIP
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.
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.
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.