I think that she was the last surviving actor from Young Frankenstein. Everyone else in that movie is gone now except the director. Mel Brooks is still kicking around at 98 years old.
Gene Hackman is definitely still alive of the more prominent cast. There’s also some of the bit actors like the med school students that are still alive.
I was thinking of the main cast, really, but I honestly thought Gene Hackman was gone. Happy to be wrong about that.
Sadly, most of the players of the bit parts are gone too, including Danny Goldman, who played the medical student with a line. The little girl is still alive as if the shoe-shine boy and the other credited medical student. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering the movie is now 50 years old. Damn, I’m old. :(
What knockers!
She was a really funny comedy actor, but also good in Close Encounters. I’ll probably remember her most for that role.
Oh yeah! She was terrific in that. She definitely could do drama and comedy equally well. She was good in The Conversation, the Coppola thriller with Gene Hackman.
And, of course, there was her role on Star Trek.
Assignment: Earth never becoming a series like Roddenberry wanted is one of TV’s great missed opportunities.
She also did some cool VO work. She was Terry’s (the new Batman) mom in Batman Beyond.
Edit: I forgot she was also in The Black Stallion! I haven’t thought about that movie since I was a kid.
OH NO!
Yeah, this one really hit hard.
Teri Garr in Young Frankenstein was definitely part of my sexual awakening.
No shame at all. Mel Brooks cast her for a reason and it wasn’t just her comedy skills.
She was so good in “After Hours”:
