The actress brightly and effectively enlivened numerous films and television series in the 1970s and 1980s in particular.

Summer (Allison Lanier), Daniel (Michael Graziadei) and Lucy (Lily Brooks O’Briant ... s silent pact to make Phyllis as colorful as possible was underway, the actress recalls with a laugh ...

Comedian Teri Garr, who starred in "Young Frankenstein" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," died of complications due to multiple sclerosis. She was 79.

Hall/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) Writer-director Mel Brooks, actress Teri Garr ... her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes ...

Actress Teri Garr died Tuesday of complications due to multiple sclerosis. She was 79. The daughter of Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian and Phyllis ... Mel Brooks said he would hire ...

That led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who said he would hire her for the role of ... (She also lost the supporting ...

the actress, who has died aged 79, began her film career as a dancer in Elvis Presley musicals and went on to appear in scene-stealing roles in films including Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein ...

The daughter of Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian and Phyllis Lind ... "The Conversation." Mel Brooks said he would hire her as Gene Wilder's lab assistant in "Young Frankenstein ...

Teri Garr, the comedy actress who starred in "Tootsie" and ... the daughter of actor Eddie Garr and costume designer Phyllis Garr, started her career with small gigs in Elvis Presley movies ...