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Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ star Teri Garr dies at 79!

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Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ star Teri Garr dies at 79!

Actress Teri Garr, who was Oscar nominated for ‘Young Frankenstein,’ ‘Tootsie’ and ‘Mr. Mom,’ has died, her manager said.

She was 79.

Garr died Tuesday in Los Angeles 20 years after being diagnosed with MS, her manager Marc Gurvitz told CNN.

In 2002, she told CNN that she told her disease story to raise awareness.

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After 11 doctors and years of unexplained symptoms, they don’t know what’s wrong with her and she is scared and frightened when you say something like that, so I think everybody is scared and frightened,” Garr said. “Because there’s so much missing information on it.” But many don’t realize it isn’t horrible. Garr studied dancing as a child and after graduating high school in Los Angeles, started auditioning. Her parents were Broadway performers and the Rockettes. Among her early credits are dancing and bit parts in Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas.”

I don’t know why I am not front. I asked what I should do. Garr thought. It’s not to be in the back.

Garr appeared on several sketch comedy shows in the 70s.

A hilarious move to the big screen

She made her mark in 1974 as Inga in Mel Brooks’ comedy “Young Frankenstein” with Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, and Marty Feldman.

    Two years later, Garr played Ronnie Neary, a wife seeking to comprehend her husband (Richard Dreyfuss)’s unexplained preoccupation after an extraterrestrial encounter in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi epic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

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    In “Tootsie,” Garr played a poor actress dating Dustin Hoffman’s protagonist, who becomes famous for playing a soap opera heroine. The role earned Garr a 1983 Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.

    The nomination made Garr proud, she writes in her 2005 memoir, “Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood.” “The Academy knew I existed and thought I was good!”

    Hoffman told CNN on Tuesday that Garr was intelligent, unique, and had a golden heart.”

    One of my highlights was working with her. Hoffman said no one was like her.

    Garr said that he resents when the part of a woman who seduces people to get her way is written.
    Garr claimed she wasn’t surprised two of her most memorable roles broke gender boundaries in a 2012 interview.

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    When they write the part of a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to get her way, they perpetuate the myth that that’s how women should operate instead of using their brains or wit.

    Later Tuesday, Keaton honored Garr on Instagram, saying, “this is a day i feared and knew was coming.”

    She was a wonderful woman and forget about how great she was as an actress and comedienne, he said. Being around great to work with.

    Garr worked in cinema and TV more. She appears in 1991’s “Good & Evil,” 1994’s “Good Advice,” and 1995’s “Women of the House.”

    Comedic acting genius

    Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ star Teri Garr dies at 79!
    1. Garr was great for the role of Phoebe Buffay’s mother on “Friends” because of her somewhat off-kilter comic timing. Garr featured in three third- and fourth-season episodes.

    On Tuesday, Kudrow told CNN that she feels “so lucky and grateful” to have worked with Teri Garr, a comedic acting genius who was and is a major influence on me.

    In the 2000s, Garr guest- starred on “Felicity,” “ER,” and “Live with Bonnie. ” She voiced Sandy Gordon in 2003’s “What’s New, Scooby-Do. ” and Mary McGinnis in “Batman Beyond” in the early 2000s.

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    Garr’s last appearance was on “How to Marry a Billionaire” in 2011.

    Garr always spoke out for MS patients.

    I guess some want you upset. I’m OK, not upset. In an interview, Garr said she was optimistic since she didn’t see any benefit in being down. Perhaps my showbiz background explains it. You’re always told you’re not tall enough, pretty enough, or right for something. I said, ‘But I’m brilliant, I’m talented, I’m this, I’m that!’ I always could, and I can with MS.”

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