Teri Garr for women of the house in 1995.
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Actress Teri Garr, known for her comedic roles, Her publicist Heidi Schaffer confirmed that she died at the age of 79 The Hollywood Reporter. Garr had worked with almost every legendary director in Hollywood: Mel Brooks Young FrankensteinSteven Spielberg in Close encounters of the third kindand Sydney Pollack in Tootsie, to name just a few. She even played alongside Elvis Presley Girl happy in 1965. However, her decades-long career in Hollywood slowed in the ’90s when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2002. Her last appearance on the screen was in the television film How to marry a billionaire in 2011.

Brooks, who cast Garr as Inga, Gene Wilder’s assistant Young FrankensteinShe remembers her “humor and lively spirit” on set. “Her ‘German’ accent had us all in stitches,” Brooks recalled in a tribute post on X. Michael Keaton, Garr’s co-star in “Mr. Mom,” wrote on Instagram in response to the news of her death: “This is a day I feared and knew would come. Forget how great an actress and comedian she was. she was a wonderful woman. Not only is he great to work with, but he’s great to be here too.
AND go back and look at her comedic work – man, was she great!!”