Teri Garr dies: Beloved comedic actress and Letterman fave was 79

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/a...garr-dead.html

Garr, the "alternately shy and sassy blond actress whose little-girl voice, deadpan comic timing, expressive eyes and cinematic bravery in the face of seemingly crazy male characters made her a star of 1970s and ’80s movies and earned her an Oscar nomination for her role in Tootsie, died Tuesday from complications of multiple sclerosis," Anita Gates writes in the actress' The New York Times obituary. Garr was first diagnosed with MS in 1999 and made her condition public in 2002. While Garr was best known for her films including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Young Frankenstein and Tootsie, she was also fondly remembered as a favorite guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and David Letterman's Late Night and The Late Show. Letterman archivist Don Giller has posted a "collection" of nearly 9 hours of David Letterman's interviews with Teri Garr, spanning from 1982 to 2008. "Her frequent, flirty visits — more than two dozens over the show’s 11 years — were comic gold, with a nearly blushing David Letterman often barely able to contain his glee," Erik Pederson says in Garr's Deadline obituary. "She also appeared on David Letterman’s 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival in 1986 and later guested on his CBS follow-up show Late Show with David Letterman about a half-dozen times from 1993-2008." “Dave reminded me of my older brothers; he was always trying to get my goat, and he usually succeeded,” Garr wrote in her memoir. Letterman's social media accounts honored Teri Garr, posting: "Remembering one of our all-time favorite guests." Garr was among the final two weeks of guests on Carson's Tonight Show in May 1992. Garr also hosted SNL three times, in 1980, 1983 and 1985. Additionally, Garr had numerous TV guest roles, including The Andy Griffith Show, Star Trek, That Girl, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, The Odd Couple, Maude, Hunter, Tales from the Crypt, The Larry Sanders Show, Murphy Brown, Frasier, Law & Order: SVU and Felicity. She also starred with Delta Burke and Patricia Heaton on the short-lived 1995 CBS sitcom Women of the House, a Designing Women spinoff from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Garr also starred in 1993-1994 CBS sitcom Good Advice alongside Shelley Long and Treat Williams. But Garr is perhaps best known to younger viewers for her three episodes on Friends as the estranged birth mother of Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe Buffay. Hollywood paid tribute to Garr, with her Mr. Mom co-star Michael Keaton writing on Instagram: "this is a day i feared and knew was coming. Forget about how great she was as an actress and comedienne. she was a wonderful woman. not just great to work with but great to be around. AND go back and watch her comedic work-Man, was she great!! RIP girl.” ALSO: Read Teri Garr’s scathing/illuminating 2008 interview with The A.V. Club.

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Yes its very very sad

Poor Teri.........