The Conversation
1974
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Inga : [gasping] Oh my goodness, I don't believe... Inga : [singing] Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you! Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : Love is the only thing that can save this poor creature, and I am going to convince him that he is loved even at the cost of my own life.
Inga is Frederick Frankenstein's lab assistant. To borrow a question from Elizabeth, "Excuse me, darling. What is it exactly that you do do?" Well, she wears skimpy clothes, administers sedatives to the monster, and is really bad at charades. And she introduces the word of the day: schwanstucker.
- “Can She Act?” “Who Gives A S***!”
- “Gene Was Absolutely Crazy About Her”
- “The Funniest Neurotic Dizzy Dame on The Screen”
Born on December 11, 1944 in a small town in Ohio, and raised in Los Angeles, Teri Ann Garr grew up in a showbiz family. Her father, Eddie Garr, was a vaudeville star and comedian, whilst her mother, Phyllis, was a dancer with the Rockettes who also worked as a costume designer. With two older brothers, Teri was the baby of the family. Tragically, ...
At first, Garr was cast in Young Frankenstein as Wilder’s onscreen bride-to-be Elizabeth; that was until Madeline Kahn, then due to play Frankenstein’s glamorous German assistant, Inga, asked to play Elizabeth instead. Though Garr says she was initially cast as Elizabeth “out of five hundred girls”, Kahn won the role off her simply by asking. Brook...
Having been plucked from near obscurity by Wilder, Garr entered a new phase of her career following Young Frankenstein (her appearance in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation earlier in 1974 helped, too). Garr landed her first major dramatic leading role in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. More high profile roles fo...
- Studio Executives tried Tricking Director Mel Brooks into Shooting the Film in Color. By the mid-‘70s, black and white cinema was an endangered species.
- Star and Co-Writer Gene Wilder Convinced Brooks to Forgo his Usual Cameo Appearance. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Brooks usually gave himself a part in his own films, from Blazing Saddles’ loopy governor to the wine-selling Rabbi of Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
- Early On, We Hear the Exact Same Conversation Repeated in Both English and German. En route to Romania, our protagonist catches a train to New York, whereupon he hears an American couple bickering.
- One of Igor’s Best Moments Inspired a Hit Aerosmith Song. “Walk this way!” Marty Feldman’s Igor instructs his master, who proceeds to copy the hunchback’s shuffling gait.
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Teri Garr is a national treasure. Here’s Garr’s analysis of the role she would eventually win: When I read the part, I realized it was really all about boobs, and I was not about to let my lack of them hinder my performance. The next day I went in to do my imitation of Renata for Mel Brooks wearing a fuzzy pink sweater and a huge padded bra ...
Gene Wilder plays violin for Teri Garr as Marty Feldman watches in a scene from the film 'Young Frankenstein', 1974. Teri Garr and her Fiance during Celebrity Sport Invitational at Ritz Carlton in Mauna Lani, Hawaii, United States.
