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188: Teri Garr: A 21-Gun Salute (with Karen Geier)
🕑 Added 2024-11-26 03:21:44 +0000 UTCThe writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a show to mark the passing of the great Teri Garr, a gifted and influential comic actress and pop cultural icon who worked with everyone from Elvis Presley, Cher and Jack Nicholson to Spielberg, Scorsese and Coppola.
We discuss a cross-section of highlights from her body of work, from her 9 appearances as a background dancer in Elvis movies, to tv and commercials in the seventies, to her breakout role in Young Frankenstein, her Oscar-nominated performance in Tootsie, some of her lesser-known but interesting parts and her legendary status as David Letterman’s favourite talk show guest, which cemented everyone’s love for her. But we also discuss how brutally honest and aware she was about showbiz sexism and how it helped (and hurt) her career.
Many of the Teri Garr performances we discuss are available to watch on YouTube or Dailymotion including all of her Letterman guest appearances and her 1986 comedy miniseries with Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin, Fresno.
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Random Roles: Teri Garr, by Sean O’Neal for The AV Club, July 22, 2008
Teri Garr in the amateur short film Where’s the Bus? by John Harris, 1964 (shot in b&w anamorphic 16mm)
Teri Garr commercials
L&M cigarettes 1969
MJB Coffee commercial, early 1970s
Fruit of the Loom, 1990
Trailer for Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Commercial for Firstborn (Michael Apted, 1984)
