DBD 10-29-2024: HELP
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I’m in Mexico for my anniversary/Dia De Los Muertos, so you kids play nice.
Teri Garr, comic actress in ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ dies at 79
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/29/teri-garr-dead/
Teri Garr, a pert blond actress who danced in Elvis Presley musicals, vaulted to attention as the shapely, German-accented lab assistant in Mel Brooks’s farce “Young Frankenstein” and received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a self-doubting feminist in “Tootsie,” died Oct. 29 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 79.
The cause was multiple sclerosis, said her publicist, Heidi Schaeffer. Ms. Garr began displaying symptoms of the degenerative disorder two decades before she went public about her condition in 2002, and she attributed widespread rumors about her health to the rapid decline of her career in the late 1980s.
On camera, Ms. Garr cultivated an appealing down-to-earth persona that was sometimes screwily discursive and other times frazzled to impatience by the men in her life, including screen husbands such as John Denver (“Oh, God!”), Richard Dreyfuss (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”) and Michael Keaton (“Mr. Mom”). New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael once described Ms. Garr as “perhaps the funniest, most neurotic dizzy dame on the screen.”
I think, now, that all of the principal actors in Young Frankenstein have passed away -
Marty Feldman (Igor) - died December 2, 1982, in Mexico City (age 48)
Madeline Kahn (Elizabeth) - died December 3, 1999 (age 57)
Peter Boyle (The Monster) - died December 12, 2006, in New York City (age 71)
Kenneth Mars (Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp) - died February 12, 2011 (age 75)
Gene Wilder (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein) - died August 29, 2016, in Stamford, CT (age 83)
Cloris Leachman (Frau Blucher) - January 27, 2021 (age 94)
Teri Garr (Inga) - died October 29, 2024 (age 79)
No DBD for Oct 30? I can’t find it.