The two actresses were protesting the Vietnam War, along with Jon Voight and pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock.

Candice Bergen recalls Teri Garr asking for hair tips from prison matron when they were arrested in 1972

The two actresses were protesting the Vietnam War, along with Jon Voight and pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock.

By Kathleen Perricone

May 14, 2026 10:22 p.m. ET

Candice Bergen; Teri Garr. Credit:

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- Candice Bergen reveals she was arrested with Teri Garr back in 1972 for protesting the Vietnam War at the U.S. Capitol.

- The two shared a jail cell and Garr annoyed the prison matron with a crack about the woman's hair.

- Bergen and Garr were arrested along with Jon Voight and pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock.

Even when locked up in jail, Teri Garr never lost her comedic genius.

Candice Bergen has revealed a never-before-heard story about the time she and the *Young Frankenstein* actress were arrested — and spent their time behind bars annoying the prison matron on duty.

Candice Cameron as a 'Vogue' model in 1970.

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The year was 1972 and the Vietnam War showed no signs of ending any time soon. Bergen and Garr were two of the estimated 111 people who protested in the U.S. Capitol by laying down in a Senate corridor, known as a "die-in," which is a misdemeanor.

"We were put in a paddy wagon and taken to jail and booked," Bergen, 80, recalled on *The Run-Through With Vogue*, a podcast hosted by her daughter Chloe Malle, the magazine's editor-in-chief. "Then we were in a jail cell in Washington, D.C. for longer than I would've thought."

While locked up, the two budding actresses were chatty, which apparently broke the rules. But Garr was determined to get the last laugh.

"The prison matron was telling us to be quiet and she said, 'Who does your hair?'" Bergen revealed with a smile. "She just gave [Garr] a *look*."

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At the time, Bergen had gained national notoriety as a fashion model, actress, and the daughter of ventriloquist-comedian Edgar Bergen. So when the protest was reported in newspapers, the 26-year-old was one of the boldface names printed in black and white, along with *Midnight Cowboy* star Jon Voight, pediatrician-author Dr. Benjamin Spock, and Yale University professor of psychiatry Dr. Richard Lifton.

"111 Foes of War Arrested in Capitol As Hall Is Blocked," read *The New York Times* headline on June 28, 1972. Bergen was noted as one of the antiwar protestors who "blocked a hallway outside the Senate chamber this afternoon."

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*The* *Miami Herald* reported the next day that all arrestees had been released after posting $50 bail.

Teri Garr and Gene Wilder in 'Young Frankenstein'.

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Garr, who had only made minor appearances on *The Andy Griffith Show* and *Star Trek*, was not mentioned in any of the newspapers at the time.

But two years later, she’d break through with the Mel Brooks comedy *Young Frankenstein* opposite Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman, and Gene Hackman.

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