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Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79
- toomuchtodo 2y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987606 ("HN: Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died") https://ktla.com/entertainment/ap-teri-garr-offbeat-comic-actress-of-young-frankenstein-and-tootsie-has-died/ https://ktla.com/entertainment/ap-teri-garr-offbeat-comic-ac... ("KTLA: Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died")
- munchler 2y agoShe’ll always be the charmingly clueless young secretary in the Gary Seven episode of Star Trek: TOS to me. I wish that had been made into a series.
- andrewl 2y agoRoberta Lincoln! Great episode.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoIf it had, it's doubtful she would've come back. I read she hated working with Roddenberry on that episode.
- micah94 2y agothat ep is so memorable... it was like a mix of bewitched, 6million dollar man, I dream of jeannie, mission impossible, and of course star trek all rolled into one.
- euroderf 2y agoAlso impressive in that ep was Isis (human form).
- mikeInAlaska 2y agoMy memory of her is Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- themadturk 2y agoI first fell in love with her watching Young Frankenstein. Then again in Close Encounters.
- beepbooptheory 2y agoThank you Teri for the sexual awakening I got watching 'Young Frankenstein' as a boy that first time.
- mikestew 2y ago"Vant to go for a roll in zee hay?"
- Loughla 2y agoI was raised by elderly grandparents. That was a movie that my ultra conservative grandma loved. It was the only movie that was above a G rating that she let us watch, because she loved Mel Brooks so much. TV and movies were essentially banned when I was growing up. It was either Lawrence Welk, I Love Lucy, or whatever nature special was on PBS if we were allowed to watch TV, until I bought her a copy of Young Frankenstein on VHS. Then we could watch that when we had TV access. Thank God for Teri's boobs when I was an early teen. I shudder to think what my tastes might be today if all I had was The Lawrence Welk show during my formative years.
- sivers 2y agoFrom an old David Letterman interview with her long, long ago, I learned a cool little life hack: She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry, going around with her CV/résumé, trying to get jobs. The most impressive things on her CV had an * next to them. At the bottom of the page, it said, “* = l.i.e.” Only once did someone interviewering her ask her what that means. She said, “Oh those are lies.” I like that. Shows it doesn't really matter, and if you're admitting up-front that it's a lie, then it's the interviewer's fault for ignoring it.
- acer4666 2y agoYou're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
- CRConrad 2y agoWith that particular "acronym", it's not it that's obtuse, but the reader who doesn't get it.
- js2 2y ago> She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry She must have been joking. She grew up in LA. She originally trained as a dancer in NYC but went into acting because she saw dancing as a dead end.
- whoopdedo 2y agoThere was an asterisk next to the story.
- erickhill 2y agoI honestly forgot about Tootsie. For me she's always one of the bright stars from Young Frankenstein and Mr Mom.
- js2 2y agoBummer. I recently watched One from the Heart for the first time. (I really enjoyed it. Not sure why it was so poorly received at the time.) One thing I noticed looking at the cast was that the three male stars had died but the three women stars were still alive. I can't say that anymore. :-( I ended up watching all of Garr's appearances on Letterman. Someone collected them all on YouTube[1]. She was a really funny lady and she had a great repartee with Letterman. The obit doesn't mention it but she's had multiple sclerosis at least since 1982 and disclosed it in 2002. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf9uQf6iuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf9uQf6iuM (1/5. Links to all 5 parts in the video description.)
- Zelphyr 2y agoI just watched Oh, God! again. She played that role perfectly. Like, "I'm sure my husband is crazy but I love him and, well, I guess we'll see where this goes."
- simpaticoder 2y agoAw man. Teri Garr will always be "mom" thanks to her role in "Mr. Mom". Only later did I see Young Frankenstein and her "let's go for a roll in the hay!" mode. And of course she is mentioned prominently in the epic Key & Peele sketch "Prepared for Terries": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWIOKKuyGE&t=53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWIOKKuyGE&t=53
- GeekyBear 2y agoShe also played the mom in the campy children's movie, Mom and Dad Save the World, as well as a dancer in Viva Los Vegas.