Teri Garr, Star of ‘Tootsie’ & ‘Young Frankenstein,’ Dies at 79

Teri Garr, star of films including Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, and Mr. Mom, has died at age 79.

Born in 1944, Garr was a trained dancer who appeared in a number of Elvis Presley musicals before she gained her first major acting role in a 1968 episode of Star Trek. She soon appeared in a number of movies that defined the cinematic ’70s: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein in 1974, and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977.