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Teri Garr: Elvis Presley
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Robert Crane caught up with the effervescent Teri Garr at her office in Los Angeles. He reports, "Teri is as pretty, funny and full of doubt in person as she is on the big screen. Angst could easily be her middle name. A dancer in nine Elvis Presley movies, Garr prominently displayed her fabulous legs while wearing a business suit straight out of Mr. Mom. In case you were wondering, she doesn't enjoy being asked what it's like to be David Letterman's girlfriend."
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The progeny of old-school, low-level industry types -- vaudevillian Eddie Garr and wardrobe mistress Phyllis Garr -- the actress was born as Terry Garr on December 11, 1949. She had launched into a professional dance career by age 13, working with the San Francisco ballet and joining a touring company of West Side Story. Her toes soon tapped her into the movies, providing her steady work during the 1960s in such films as The TAMI Show, What a Way to Go, and John Goldfarb Please Come Home, with her first actual appearance coming in the Elvis Presley vehicle Fun in Acapulco (1963). Her tiny speaking role in the 1968 Monkees movie Head brought her enough attention to land her work as a featured player in a handful of early-'70s television variety shows: The Ken Berry "Wow" Show, The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour, and The Sony and Cher Comedy Hour.
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Before becoming an actress, Garr was a dancer, following in the footsteps of her mother, who was a Rockette. Garr danced in a number of Elvis Presley films, on the Sony and Cher Comedy Hour TV show, and on the show Shivaree.
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Divorced from contractor John O'Neil, Garr lives in Los Angeles with Molly, her 10-year-old adopted daughter. She doesn't reveal her age, but given the fact that she was dancing in Elvis Presley movies as early as 1963, it's a safe bet she's in her late 50s.
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