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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background
dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young
Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79.
Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,”
said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in recent
years and underwent an operation in January 2007 to repair an aneurysm.
Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig
calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and
screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made
everything she was in better.”
The actor, who was sometimes credited as Terri, Terry or Terry Ann during her
long career, seemed destined for show business from her childhood.
Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian; her mother was
Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio
City Music Hall. Their daughter began dance lessons at 6 and by 14 was dancing
with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies.
She was 16 when she joined the road company of “West Side Story” in Los
Angeles, and as early as 1963 she began appearing in bit parts in films."
Via Susan ****
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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