Research Catalog

Title

Speedbumps : flooring it through Hollywood / Teri Garr with Henriette Mantel.

Author

Garr, Teri, 1944-

Publication

New York : Hudson Street Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mantel, Henriette.

Description

xi, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The popular Oscar-nominated actress muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS--from the directors she's worked with and admired to the men she's loved; from sipping Cokes with Elvis Presley to hangin' with the Beatles; from her secrets to succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear and anxiety of being plagued by mysterious physical problems that eluded diagnosis for twenty years. At thirteen she was touring with a ballet company, at seventeen she was dancing alongside Elvis and Ann-Margret, and by thirty she was one of Hollywood's best loved comic actresses. In 2002 she announced she had multiple sclerosis and became a leading advocate in raising awareness about the disease.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Garr, Teri, 1944-
• Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
• Multiple sclerosis > Patients > United States > Biography

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hollywood : this mess is a place -- Daddy dearest, hold your applause -- Kwitcher bitchin' -- My affair with Mickey Mouse -- Buried alive -- Ballerina in a go-go cage -- Money talks and bullshit walks -- What knockers -- We're circus people -- One from the heart -- My marriage to Dave-- -- Tripped up -- Something up my butt -- Grace of my heart -- With friends like these-- -- Walking on broken glass -- Ms. Garr goes to Washington -- Brace yourself -- Coming in for a landing -- She's up, she's down, she's up, she's down -- Elvis has left the building -- Keep your chins up -- The little engine that could.

ISBN

1594630070 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2005014758
• 9781594630071

OCLC

60514982

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library