Sunday, January 20, 2008

Suzanne Pleshette Dies


Photo from source, AP

Sad, sad, sad. Loved her in everything I ever saw her in. She was even good in the otherwise pretty bad Good Morning, Miami. And she was the best punchline to the world's longest joke--the entire series run of Newhart.

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Suzanne Pleshette Dies in Los Angeles

Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age 70.

Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" and in Broadway plays including "The Miracle Worker," died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein, also a family friend.

Pleshette underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006.

Read more at: Associated Press

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