Two birthday girls today, Teri Garr, who turns 65, and Rita Moreno, who turns 80. Both were supporting actresses who stole the shows in all-time great movies: Garr as the buxom lab in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, maybe the greatest American comedy ever; and Moreno as Anita, the saucy friend of Maria, in West Side Story, maybe the greatest American musical. Here is Moreno's show-stopping moment, singing "America":
And here is Garr in a hilarious scene with Gene Wilder, in which they discover the "secret passageway":
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