TCM Schedule for Thurs, Jan 9, 2025: Bette Davis / Memorial Tribute to Teri Garr

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Teri Garr (December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024) was an American actress.

Known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s, Garr often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends. She received nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Tootsie (1982), playing a struggling actress who loses the soap opera role of a female hospital administrator to her male friend and acting coach.

Garr was raised primarily in North Hollywood, California. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals. After spending two years attending college, Garr left Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City.

The Star Trek television episode, Assignment: Earth (1968) is often cited as her first significant role in film or television." (It) was the first job where I had a fairly big (for me) speaking part," Garr related in her memoir. "I played Roberta Lincoln, a dippy secretary in a pink and orange costume with a very short skirt. Had the spin-off succeeded, I would have continued on as an earthling agent, working to preserve humanity. In a very short skirt." This led to her being, in her words, "cast as birdbrained lasses," in further television shows.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Garr




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6:15 AM | Dangerous (1935)
A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress he's fallen in love with.
Dir: Alfred E. Green | Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay

7:45 AM | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland

9:45 AM | It's Love I'm After (1937)
A squabbling stage couple gets mixed up with an amorous fan and her jealous suitor.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo | Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland

11:30 AM | The Great Lie (1941)
Believing her husband dead, a wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby.
Dir: Edmund Goulding | Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor

1:30 PM | All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess.
Dir: Anatole Litvak | Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn

4:00 PM | Dark Victory (1939)
A socialite diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor decides how to spend her final days.
Dir: Edmund Goulding | Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart

6:00 PM | Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper | Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains


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8:00 PM | Young Frankenstein (1974)
A third generation Frankenstein recreates his grandfather's ghoulish work. Hilarity ensues.
Dir: Mel Brooks | Cast: Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman,

10:00 PM | Oh, God! (1977)
God selects an assistant grocery manager as his messenger to the modern world.
Dir: Carl Reiner | Cast: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr

12:00 AM | The Black Stallion (1979)
A boy bonds with the rescued stallion, and trains him to race.
Dir: Carroll Ballard | Cast: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr


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2:15 AM | National Velvet (1944)
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor

4:30 AM | Gypsy Colt (1954)
A faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
Dir: Andrew Marton | Cast: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee