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May 29, 2021 · According to a story Lance Parkin, the author of The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, wrote, Teri Garr ended up walking off the set off Star Trek when Gene Roddenberry wanted her skirt to be even shorter than it already was.
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Aug 15, 2023 · According to "The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry," author Lance Parkin recounted that the actor was so insulted that she walked off set. Garr's negative...
- Carolyn Jenkins
Apparently, Garr feared (correctly) that Starlog wanted to talk Trek and had to be persuaded to chat so as to promote her new flick. Warren sat down with her on the balcony of her publicist’s office for an in-person session and from there, things went sour.
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Teri Garr (born 11 December 1944; age 79) , credited as Terri Garr, is the actress who played Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Assignment: Earth".
She filmed her scenes between Wednesday 3 January 1968 and Monday 8 January 1968 at Paramount Stage 5 and on location at Paramount Pictures' "Windsor Street" backlot.
Garr earned an Academy Award nomination in 1983 for her supporting role in the Sydney Pollack comedy Tootsie (which also featured James W. Jansen). She is also well-known for her roles in Young Frankenstein (1974, co-starring Kenneth Mars and featuring Ian Abercrombie, Benjie Bancroft, Lars Hensen, John Hugh McKnight, Monty O'Grady, Arthur Tovey, and Max Wagner), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, with Gene Dynarski and Monty O'Grady).
She was born in Lakewood, Ohio, but was raised in North Hollywood. Her father, Eddie Garr was a comedic actor, her mother, Phyllis Lind Garr worked as a costumer in films.
In her youth, Garr was trained in ballet and other forms of dance, and made her initial film appearances as a background dancer in "beach party" films and Elvis Presley movies, often accompanied by her best friend and roommate at the time, Carey Foster. She appeared uncredited in no less than six Elvis movies from 1963 to 1967, including Kissin' Cousins (1964, with Yvonne Craig, Lance LeGault, Carey Foster, and directed by Gene Nelson), Roustabout (1964, with Lance LeGault, K.L. Smith, Marianna Hill, and Carey Foster), Viva Las Vegas (1964, with Pete Kellett, Lance LeGault, Edwin Rochelle, and William Meader), and Clambake (1967, with James Gregory, Marj Dusay, Angelique Pettyjohn, and Corbin Bernsen).
Her later films include Maryjane (1968, with Byron Morrow and her Original Series co-star Bruce Mars), Head (1968, with Logan Ramsey, Abraham Sofaer, Charles Macaulay and an uncredited Tania Lemani), The Conversation (1974), Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976, with Keye Luke, Dean Stockwell, and Ricardo Montalban), Oh, God! (1977, with Jeff Corey, David Ogden Stiers, Paul Sorvino, William Daniels, and Clyde Kusatsu), The Black Stallion (1979), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981, with Jeffrey Combs), The Black Stallion Returns (1983), Mr. Mom (1983, with Christopher Lloyd, Graham Jarvis, Carolyn Seymour, Derek McGrath, Michael Ensign, and Bruce French), Firstborn (1984, with Peter Weller), After Hours (1985, with Dick Miller), Mom and Dad Save the World (1992, with Wallace Shawn, Thalmus Rasulala, and Dennis Madalone), Dumb and Dumber (1994, with Mike Starr and Charles Rocket), Michael (1996, with Tom Hodges and Wallace Langham), and Dick (1999, with Kirsten Dunst and Saul Rubinek). In addition, she was seen in The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994), both of which also featured Sally Kellerman. The former film also featured appearances by René Auberjonois, Paul Dooley, Louise Fletcher, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Malcolm McDowell, Bert Remsen, Dean Stockwell, Brian Tochi, and Ray Walston.
•Teri Garr at the Internet Movie Database
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Feb 1, 2023 · Teri Garr played a ditzy secretary in the third season episode "Assignment: Earth," because women in the Star Trek universe were dtizy like 9 times out of 10 in those early episodes. But that doesn't seem to be the reason why she hated the experience so much.
"Earlier in that year, she landed her first significant TV role, featured as secretary Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth", designed as a backdoor pilot episode for a new series that was not commissioned.
It was originally written as a standalone half-hour television series; when no network chose to order a pilot, the script was reworked to fit into Star Trek as a backdoor pilot for the proposed Assignment: Earth series. The spin-off series was never produced. This was Teri Garr's first significant TV role.
