Born on this day – Teri Garr:

Teri Garr

Actress

Dancer

Comedian

December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1983.

Teri Garr in Star Trek (1968)

Richard Dreyfuss (left) and Teri Garr (right) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Gene Wilder (left) and Teri Garr (right) in Young Frankenstein (1974)

Credits:

Book:

Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood.

Published 2005.
Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071

Description:

In her laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, Teri Garr, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes, muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS.

From the directors she’s worked with and admired to the men she’s loved; from sipping cokes with Elvis Presley on Good Friday to hangin’ with the Beatles; from her secrets to succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear, anxiety, and denial of being plagues by mysterious physical problems that eluded diagnosis for over twenty years – the insights in Speedbumps, while always couched in Garr’s trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often profound.

Since she was eight years old, little Terry Ann Garr was a natural performer, staging elaborate productions for the neighborhood in her family’s garage, captivating her teachers, and easing the tensions between her alcoholic, gambling vaudevillian father and her hard-working Rockette mother with her natural charm and wit. By the age of thirteen – two years after her father’s premature death catalyzed her to “get serious” about becoming a dancer – she was touring with a San Franscisco ballet company; at seventeen, she was swiveling her hips alongside Elvis and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas.

By the time she was thirty, Teri had become known as one of Hollywood's best-loved comic actresses, starring in such classic films as Young Frankenstein; Oh, God!; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; and Mr. Mom; and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance alongside Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.

In October 2002, Teri announced on national television that she had multiple sclerosis, making headlines across the country. Since then, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease, traveling around the United States speaking to corporations, physicians, and patients about her experience.

Now, in a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri writes about her life – speedbumps and all – with the same characteristic wit and warmth that have won the hearts of fans and Hollywood for more than three decades.

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Movies and television:

1988 MTV Video Music Awards (1988); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); A Better Man: The Making of Tootsie (2008); A Colder Kind of Death (2001); A Comic's Climb at the USCAF (2005); A Festival at Ford's (1991); A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder (1990); A Simple Wish (1997); A Swingin' Affair (1963); A Taste of Jupiter (2005); Adventures in Wonderland (1993); AFI Life Achievement Award (1986–2013); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999); After Hours (1985); Aliens for Breakfast (1995); Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005); American Cinema (1995); An American Saturday Night (1991); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Ask Rita (2003); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1974); Barney's First Adventures (1998); Batman (1966); Batman Beyond (1999–2000); Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000); Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999); Biography (1998–2002); Bitte umblättern (1984); Black Dahlia / Video Game (1998); Casper Meets Wendy (1998); Celebrity First Loves (1995); Changes (1969); Changing Habits (1997); Cher (1975); Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999–2000); Cinemax Comedy Experiment (1985 / 1988); Clambake (1967); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Crumbs (2006); David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival (1986); Deja View (1986); Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992); Des O'Connor Tonight (1992); Dick (1999); Do It Debbie's Way (1983); Doctor Franken (1980); Double Jeopardy (1996); Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1999); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dream On (1992); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994); Dumb and Dumber (1994); E! True Hollywood Story (2003); Elvis Forever (2002); Entertainment Tonight (2007); ER (1999); Expired (2007); Faerie Tale Theatre (1982 / 1985); Felicity (2001); Firstborn (1984); For Pete's Sake! (1966); Frasier (1995); Fresno (1986); Friday Night (1992); Friends (1997–1998); Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993); Full Moon in Blue Water (1988); Fun in Acapulco (1963); Futures (1991); Gene Wilder: Loved, Remembered (2017); Ghost World (2001); God Out the Window (2007); Good & Evil (1991); Good Advice (1994); Great Drives (1996); Greetings from Tucson (2003); GSN Live (2009); Half a Dozen Babies (1999); Head (1968); Hey, Hey We're the Monkees (1997); Hollywood Squares (2001–2002); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Homage to Steve (1984); Honky Tonk Freeway (1981); Hour Magazine (1984–1986); How to Marry a Billionaire (2011); Hunter (1977); Imagine (2018); Inside the Coppola Personality (1981); Insight (1966); Intimate Portrait (2000); Intimate Strangers (1986); It Takes a Thief (1969); I've Got a Secret (2000); Jackie Gleason: The Great One (1988); Java Junkie (1979); Jeopardy! (1993–1998); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2006); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965); Kabluey (2007); Kill the Man (1999); King of the Hill (2000); Kissin' Cousins (1964); La tele de tu vida (2007); Larry King Live (2005); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995–1996); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993); Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2008); Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (1999); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005); Law and Order (1976); Legends (2008); Let It Ride (1989); Life with Bonnie (2003); Life Without Dick (2002); Lifetime Presents: Disney's American Teachers Awards (2001); Love, Gilda (2018); M*A*S*H (1973 / 1978); Mad TV (2002); Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio (1987); Mary & Tim (1997); Maryjane (1968); Maude (1975); Mayberry R.F.D. (1968); McCloud (1970–1975); Memories Then and Now (1988); Men Behaving Badly (1996); Michael (1996); Miracles (1986); Mom and Dad Save the World (1992); Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990); Movin' with Nancy (1967); Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979); Mr. Mom (1983); Mr. Novak (1964); Murder Live! (1997); Murphy Brown (1993); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); NightScream (1997); Oh, God! (1977); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm / Segment: The Frog Prince (1977); One from the Heart (1981); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Out Cold (1989); Pack of Lies (1987); Pajama Party (1964); Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim (1987); Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974); Perfect Alibi (1995); Prime Suspect (1982); Radio City Music Hall: The Story Behind the Showplace (1999); Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters (1984); Ready to Wear (1994); Red Line 7000 (1965); Remembering Gene Wilder (2023); Rendez-Vous Video Magazine / Segment: Coppola (1981); Role Model: Gene Wilder (2008); Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977); Room 222 (1969); Roustabout (1964); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997); Safeguard: Beige Deodorant and Antibacterial Soap Commercial (1972); Saturday Night Live (1979 / 1985); Save the Rabbits (1994); Screen Goddesses (2006); Searching for Debra Winger (2002); Sesame Street (1987); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Shindig! (1964–1965); Shining Time Station: One of the Family (1995); Shivaree (1965); Short Time (1990); Showbiz Today (1992); Sin City Spectacular (1998–1999); Spielberg (2017); Star Trek (1968); Steve Martin: A Comic Life (1999); Stranger in the Family (1991); Strong Medicine (2001); Studio 10 (2017); Summertree (1971); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Teri Garr in Flapjack Floozie (1988); That Girl (1967–1968); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 15th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2000); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The 6th Annual Independent Spirit Awards (1991); The 7th Annual American Comedy Awards (1993); The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977); The Alan Hamel Show (1978); The Andy Griffith Show (1968); The Arsenio Hall Show (1991); The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic (1991); The Best TV Shows That Never Were (2004); The Black Stallion (1979); The Black Stallion Returns (1983); The Bob Newhart Show (1973–1974); The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008); The Booth / Segment: Death at Dinner (1985); The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973); The Carson Podcast (2018); The Celebrity Guide to Entertaining (1993); The Conversation (1974); The Cool Ones (1967); The Definite Maybe (1997); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Downer Channel (2001); The Dream Studio (2004); The Escape Artist (1982); The Factor (2014); The Full Wax (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1993); The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1975); The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972); The Larry Sanders Show (1993); The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1987); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1993); The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977 / 2001); The Martin Short Show (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1975–1984); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Moonshine War (1970); The Mothers-In-Law (1969); The Movie Awards (1991); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973); The New Show (1984); The Odd Couple (1974); The Player (1992); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996); The Sky Is Falling (1999); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971–1977); The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974); The Sting II (1983); The T.A.M.I. Show (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1975–1992); The Tony Danza Show (2006); The View (2005); The Weird Al Show (1997); The Winter of Our Discontent (1983); This Is the Life (1970); This Means War (2012); To Catch a King (1984); Today (1982); Tootsie (1982); Trailers from Hell (2007); Trying Times (1987); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Ultimate Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments (1999); Unaccompanied Minors (2006); Viva Las Vegas (1964); Waiting for the Light (1990); Weakest Link (2001); What a Way to Go! (1964); What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2003); Where the Action Is (1965); Where's the Bus? (1966); Witches' Brew (1980); Wogan (1987); Women of the House (1995); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Young Frankenstein (1974); Young Frankenstein: It's Alive! Creating a Monster Classic (2008); Your Total Health (2006).