The Oscar-nominated actress, who started out as a dancer, revealed in 2002 that she had multiple sclerosis.
Garr, who started out as a background dancer working alongside Elvis Presley in several 1960s party films, died in Los Angeles, publicist Heidi Schaeffer said.
Several publications list Terry Ann Garr’s birth date as Dec. 11, 1944. She was born in Lakewood, Ohio, and had two older brothers. Her father, Eddie, was a song-and-dance man in vaudeville, and her mother, Phyllis , was a Rockette from Radio City Music Hall. Said Garr, who had sought the Madeline Kahn role in the movie: “At first I didn’t know there was an accent, and I was doingShe went to her audition wearing a bra stuffed with socks. “People pay over $5,000 for a boob job today. Mine cost under $5 at Woolworths and got me the part, my biggest to date,” she wrote in the 2005 memoir,
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