Adorable Actress

Actress Teri Garr has passed at 79. She started in the 1960s on TV shows like Star Trek and later variety shows especially as supporting dancer (appearing in a number of Elvis Presley films) and comedian with Sonny and Cher. Her greatest popularity was as a film star in such blockbusters as Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oh God, Mr. Mom, a couple of Francis Ford Coppola films, The Conversation and One from the Heart, and her only Oscar nomination for supporting actress in the all time comedy classic, Tootsie. For me, she will always be the adorably, perfect guest among her many funny, late night appearances with host David Letterman.

Nurse Nellie

 

Actress Mitzi Gaynor has passed at 93. This singer and dancer was popular in 1950s films especially musicals like There's No Business Like Show Business and Les Girls. She worked with some top names like Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra and garnered a wider audience in the 1960s with a knockout performance of Georgy Girl at the 1967 Oscars and with a series of musical specials in the 1970s.  But her claim to immortality was in the big screen version of South Pacific in 1958. She will always be Nurse Nellie Forbush.