FoxNews: Teri Garr, 'Young Frankenstein' actress, dead at 79

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Teri Garr, 'Young Frankenstein' actress, dead at 79

Comedian Teri Garr, who starred in "Young Frankenstein" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," died of complications due to multiple sclerosis. She was 79....                        ...                        ...                            ...Teri Garr, known for her starring roles in "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," died Tuesday in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. She was 79.......Garr's publicist confirmed to The Associated Press that the comedian died of complications due to multiple sclerosis.......She began her career in the entertainment industry as a background dancer in a number of Elvis Presley movies, and went on to earn an You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login nomination for her role as Sandy Lester in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman comedy, "Tootsie."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The daughter of Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian and Phyllis Lind, one of the original Rockettes at New York's Radio City Music Hall, Garr seemed destined for show business.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......She appeared in nine Elvis Presley movies, including You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login"Roustabout" and "Clambake." ......While Garr was a featured dancer on "Shindig," and performed as a cast member on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," her first big film break came as Gene Hackman's girlfriend in the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola thriller, "The Conversation."......Mel Brooks said he would hire her as Gene Wilder's lab assistant in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login only if she could speak with a German accent......."Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her," Garr once remembered.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The gig turned her into a comedy queen, and landed her roles in "Mr. Mom" with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, "Out Cold" with John Lithgow, and "Mom and Dad Save the World." Michael Keaton mourned the loss of Garr in a tribute shared on Instagram Tuesday. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......"This is a day I feared and knew was coming," he wrote. "Forget about how great she was as an actress and comedienne. She was a wonderful woman. Not just greet to work with but great to be around."......Keaton added, "And go back and watch her comedic work - Man, was she great!! RIP girl!!"......David Letterman honored Garr with a clip shared on social media from one of her many appearances on his talk show. "Remembering one of our all-time favorite guests Teri Garr #RIP," Letterman wrote on Instagram.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......With more than 150 acting credits to her name, she earned acclaim on television too, working as Roberta Lincoln in "Star Trek," Sgt. Phyllis Norton in the TV series "McCloud," "Good & Evil," and "Women of the House."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......She also had a memorable guest stint on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login portraying the mother of Lisa Kudrow. Garr's last credited role was in the 2011 TV series, "How to Marry a Billionaire."......Garr revealed her You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login diagnosis in 2002, and survived emergency brain aneurysm surgery four years later. Soon after, she became a spokeswoman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and would often give speeches at gatherings in the United States and Canada.......She shared details of her diagnosis in her You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, "Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood."......"My body had a trick or two up its sleeve," Garr wrote. "A stumble here, a tingling finger there. I was trained as a dancer and knew better than to indulge the random aches and pains that visited now and then. Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me."...

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