Teri Garr

Everybody's got the same thing, that you have a peak and then it fades away. So that goes with life, I guess. But I didn't think that the show business looked –

Everybody's got the same thing, that you have a peak and then it fades away. So that goes with life, I guess. But I didn't think that the show business looked –

Everybody's got the same thing, that you have a peak and then it fades away. So that goes with life, I guess. But I didn't think that the show business looked –

that fair but I also somehow got it in my head that I was going to beat it and that I was going to get in there and do do it too and I was very influenced by my mother when she worked at the studios and I was young then and I would go visit her and take the bus down and hang out with her and it was so exciting to be at a tv studio where there was costumes and sets and people rushing around and music and orchestras I well I want to be part of this I just want to be part of this and then

that fair but I also somehow got it in my head that I was going to beat it and that I was going to get in there and do do it too and I was very influenced by my mother when she worked at the studios and I was young then and I would go visit her and take the bus down and hang out with her and it was so exciting to be at a tv studio where there was costumes and sets and people rushing around and music and orchestras I well I want to be part of this I just want to be part of this and then

that fair but I also somehow got it in my head that I was going to beat it and that I was going to get in there and do do it too and I was very influenced by my mother when she worked at the studios and I was young then and I would go visit her and take the bus down and hang out with her and it was so exciting to be at a tv studio where there was costumes and sets and people rushing around and music and orchestras I well I want to be part of this I just want to be part of this and then

because my parents were in vaudeville a lot of their friends came out to hollywood everybody wanted to be in the business and they didn't it didn't happen so they opened dancing schools so i got to have free dancing lessons in all these places where my parents who had worked with a dance team in philly and a dog act in boston out of this and they were all out there either mater d's or opening orange julius stands or something like that a very interesting eclectic way that the uh the fringe of show business kind of settled in in la

because my parents were in vaudeville a lot of their friends came out to hollywood everybody wanted to be in the business and they didn't it didn't happen so they opened dancing schools so i got to have free dancing lessons in all these places where my parents who had worked with a dance team in philly and a dog act in boston out of this and they were all out there either mater d's or opening orange julius stands or something like that a very interesting eclectic way that the uh the fringe of show business kind of settled in in la

because my parents were in vaudeville a lot of their friends came out to hollywood everybody wanted to be in the business and they didn't it didn't happen so they opened dancing schools so i got to have free dancing lessons in all these places where my parents who had worked with a dance team in philly and a dog act in boston out of this and they were all out there either mater d's or opening orange julius stands or something like that a very interesting eclectic way that the uh the fringe of show business kind of settled in in la

And I was in that world. But it was always out there, the show business thing. And he goes, well, it's there for you. You can try it. You can try. And I said, well, I think I will. I think I'll try. My two older brothers didn't want to do it. Your father was a comic.

And I was in that world. But it was always out there, the show business thing. And he goes, well, it's there for you. You can try it. You can try. And I said, well, I think I will. I think I'll try. My two older brothers didn't want to do it. Your father was a comic.

And I was in that world. But it was always out there, the show business thing. And he goes, well, it's there for you. You can try it. You can try. And I said, well, I think I will. I think I'll try. My two older brothers didn't want to do it. Your father was a comic.

Well, I don't remember that too much. It's a very interesting thing about writing a book about your life. I seem to find a big, huge gap about, well, who was my father? He died when I was 11, and most of the time when I was alive, until he died, he was ill. So I couldn't really talk to him too much, and I had to be quiet because Dad is sick. What was his sickness? Well, he had heart trouble.

Well, I don't remember that too much. It's a very interesting thing about writing a book about your life. I seem to find a big, huge gap about, well, who was my father? He died when I was 11, and most of the time when I was alive, until he died, he was ill. So I couldn't really talk to him too much, and I had to be quiet because Dad is sick. What was his sickness? Well, he had heart trouble.

Well, I don't remember that too much. It's a very interesting thing about writing a book about your life. I seem to find a big, huge gap about, well, who was my father? He died when I was 11, and most of the time when I was alive, until he died, he was ill. So I couldn't really talk to him too much, and I had to be quiet because Dad is sick. What was his sickness? Well, he had heart trouble.

When I was born, he was in – I don't know if this – He was in a USO show in the South Pacific, and he fell out of a Jeep and broke his back. And ever since then, he was not well. And they brought him back to Long Beach in a cast that was from the top of his chin to his knees. It was just a horrible—they didn't know how to treat a broken back.

When I was born, he was in – I don't know if this – He was in a USO show in the South Pacific, and he fell out of a Jeep and broke his back. And ever since then, he was not well. And they brought him back to Long Beach in a cast that was from the top of his chin to his knees. It was just a horrible—they didn't know how to treat a broken back.

When I was born, he was in – I don't know if this – He was in a USO show in the South Pacific, and he fell out of a Jeep and broke his back. And ever since then, he was not well. And they brought him back to Long Beach in a cast that was from the top of his chin to his knees. It was just a horrible—they didn't know how to treat a broken back.

But something happened then, I think, that diminished his life. And he started having heart trouble and he started having all kinds of things. And he was always ill. He did character acting in movies. He did a movie with Marilyn Monroe. And I remember wanting to see that when I was a kid. And he kind of made a living, but he was always ill.

But something happened then, I think, that diminished his life. And he started having heart trouble and he started having all kinds of things. And he was always ill. He did character acting in movies. He did a movie with Marilyn Monroe. And I remember wanting to see that when I was a kid. And he kind of made a living, but he was always ill.