I would take Teri over Ann-Margaret any day! 
He was a hound dog, that’s for sure!
She got an Oscar nomination for her Tootsie performance.
Always enjoyed seeing her work.
Her small role in The Conversation is also noteworthy in my mind, as well. Also came out in 1974 like YF.
Both considerable step-ups from Head.
I always really enjoyed her. She was in so many things when I was growing up. I had no idea she had MS.
I will miss her.
RIP
For me, it was Young Frankenstein that cemented my crush on her. Nerdy lab assistant, who also happens to be drop-dead gorgeous? Yes please. Plus, just how sincere she was in the role.
Side pedantry:
Apparently the story that went around that the Stones were upstaged after following James Brown was a bit of a myth. Apparently between every performer they mostly cleared the crowd and brought in a fresh one. So the folks who saw Brown were not the same as saw the Stones. Jagger’s stage presence couldn’t fully compete with Brown (few if any could), but on that actual occasion he never really had to. The videos of them following each is a matter of editing, rather than actual competing performances for the same audience.
ETA: As for Terri Garr, she was almost always a reliably interesting supporting actor. The first thing I thought of, oddly maybe, was her bit role in The Conversation.
ETA2: Ninja’ed by ftg.
I guess we all know Teri Garr in Tootsie, Close Encounters, and in Young Frankenstein. Now, let me introduce her to you in a little-remembered film from 1989, Let It Ride.
It’s about a horseplayer, Jay Trotter (played by Richard Dreyfuss), who is having the best day of his life at the track. He’s winning every race! Problem is, his wife (played by Teri Garr) is not happy with his horseplaying. She doesn’t know that he’s winning. She goes to the track and asks him to return home, but he won’t. “Can’t you just watch the horses run around the track, without betting?”
“There is no horse racing without betting,” Trotter informs her. She leaves, and goes home, only to call him at the track:
“Jay, I’ve decided to become an alcoholic. I’m sitting here getting drunk right now. Vodka, gin, whisky, overflowing ashtrays, that’s my life now.”
Despite the dark-sounding tone, the film is a comedy, and Teri Garr brings it home. She is perfect. She shows up for the final race, and let’s just say that she forgives Trotter.
Fun film, by the way. Look for performances by David Johansen, Jennifer Tilly, Michelle Phillips, Allen Garfield, Robbie Coltrane (yes, Harry Potter’s Hagrid, who does a bang-on American accent), and a very young Cynthia Nixon. But Teri Garr runs the gamut from loving wife to frustrated wife to wannabe-alcoholic to loving wife again. Quite the stretch, but she nailed it, every time.
One of her lesser-known films, but when I hear “Teri Garr,” I think, “Let It Ride.” Rest well, Teri. You worked hard, you entertained us, and you earned it.
I vaguely remember channel surfing once, and coming across a movie with Teri Garr and John Lithgow. According to IMDb, they were together in a film called Out Cold from 1989. The thing is, the part I saw had Garr as a brunette, and Lithgow with a full head of hair, and none of the stills I can find from that movie match that. Reading the plot, it’s possible that they were meeting in disguise, and I just happened to catch that one scene.
Has anyone else seen it, and can confirm my dim memory? It sounds good; I may have to seek it out. Maybe TCM will do a Garr tribute night soon.
I came along to mention this. It is much maligned but is one of my favorites. I can’t think of any other movie that so successfully captures the mindset of gamblers. The 2 Teri Garr scenes that you mention are available on YouTube. The book on which it was it was based was written by Jay Cronley. He also wrote the novels that became Funny Farm and Quick Change.
I wish she had won! (The story went at the time that Jessica Lange was the winner, instead of Garr, because the Academy voters felt bad for Lange losing out to Meryl Streep as Best Actress. Sort of a consolation prize for Lange. Lange had been nominated for Frances, while Streep won for Sophie’s Choice.)
While we’re mentioning lesser-known films: Mom and Dad Save the World is poorly-rated and lost money. And Teri Garr doesn’t have as much to do as one would wish. But it’s still worth a watch. (I’m a Jon Lovitz fan, so that’s a point in its favor for me.)
I love that movie, and you are right - she hit every note perfectly. So did everybody else, for that matter. A sadly under-appreciated film.
Garr - “Why are they all cheering?”
Dreyfuss - “I’m having a very good day.”
She also starred in the film that destroyed Zoetrope - One From the Heart. Great soundtrack and tolerable performances. Coppola was the problem here, not the acting.
RIP 
Watching the Letterman clips I’m struck by how she always had a mischievous look in her eye like “Okay Dave, how are we going to play it this time?”
She was very good in After Hours. RIP
She wasn’t just gorgeous, she had a playful little-girl quality that always endeared her to me. She could express more in one glance with raised eyebrows and a grin than other people can no matter how hard they try.
And then there’s her turn in The Absent-Minded Waiter…
I saw Steve Martin live around 1977 in a huge stadium, and they played The Absent-Minded Waiter on a big screen before he came out. At that time he was hugely popular as a stand-up comic but hadn’t yet started appearing in movies. I think that short was his first appearance in a scripted film.
I remember when he first came on stage, he looked around at the crowd of 15,000 and muttered “When are they going to get me out of these toilets?”
Unless I missed it, I’m surprised there’s been no mention of “Oh God” yet.
I remeber her mostly from TV. Though I think she never had a show of her own, she was on a lot of shows. I remember all of her hosting SNL events. She was quite likeable. Famous people, actors and so forth, can be really annoying on talk shows etc. Teri was always herself, genuine. I’ll have to look up the films, as I only vividly remember one.