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Teri Garr has said that she learned a passable German accent in twenty four hours after Mel Brooks told her that she had lost the role she had originally tried out for in Young Frankenstein to Madeline Kahn. (edit)
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In 2004, Teri Garr accepted the role of National Chair for the Society's Women Against MS program. Women Against MS (WAMS) is a nationwide education and fundraising program that helps to increase the public's awareness of MS and the National MS Society while acknowledging and encouraging the advancement of women philanthropists.
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In the early 1990s, Garr starred in the failed TV sitcoms Good and Evil (1991), Good Advice (1993), and Women of the House (1995). In the ensuing years many of her dramatic performances proved to be disappointing... she continued to excel in comedic roles, most notably in the low-brow Jim Carrey vehicle Dumb and Dumber (1994) and the political satire Dick (1999). Recently, Garr had a brief stint playing Lisa Kudrow’s mother on the wildly popular NBC sitcom Friends. She is currently filming the romantic comedy Life Without Dick (2001), which costars Harry Connick Jr. and Sarah Jessica Parker
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Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio. Her father, Eddie Garr (né Gonnau), was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road. Her mother, Phyllis (née Lind), was a dancer, wardrobe mistress, and model.[2] Garr is a graduate of Magnificat High School, an all-girl's Roman Catholic high school in Rocky River, Ohio.
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"I had a big, long run," Garr says. She started her career in ballet, took go-go dancing gigs in Elvis Presley movies and rock 'n' roll shows like "Shindig,'' became a regular on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" (she was Olivia to Cher's Laverne) and worked with the best directors -- Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, Mel Brooks and Sydney Pollack -- after transitioning to movies.
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Aside from talk shows and interviews, multiple sclerosis has prevented Teri Garr from appearing in many live action or filmed roles recently. She did star in a sit-down role in a Los Angeles production of The Vagina Monologues in December of 2000. (edit)
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