[HN Gopher] Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie...
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Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79
Author : birriel
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-10-29 19:03 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Related:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987606 ("HN: Teri Garr,
| offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has
| died")
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| 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 wrote:
| She'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.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| If it had, it's doubtful she would've come back. I read she
| hated working with Roddenberry on that episode.
| micah94 wrote:
| that 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 wrote:
| Also impressive in that ep was Isis (human form).
| andrewl wrote:
| Roberta Lincoln! Great episode.
| mikeInAlaska wrote:
| My memory of her is Close Encounters of the Third Kind
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| Thank you Teri for the sexual awakening I got watching 'Young
| Frankenstein' as a boy that first time.
| mikestew wrote:
| "Vant to go for a roll in zee hay?"
| mcphage wrote:
| "What knockers!"
|
| "Oh, sank you..."
| phkahler wrote:
| Magnificent knockers.
| Loughla wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| From 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/resume, 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 wrote:
| You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse
| acronym
| js2 wrote:
| > 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 wrote:
| There was an asterisk next to the story.
| erickhill wrote:
| I honestly forgot about Tootsie. For me she's always one of the
| bright stars from Young Frankenstein and Mr Mom.
| js2 wrote:
| Bummer. 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 (1/5. Links to
| all 5 parts in the video description.)
| Zelphyr wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| Aw 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
| GeekyBear wrote:
| She 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.
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