Posted on 01/20/2008 12:02:34 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron
Suzanne Pleshette Dies in Los Angeles By BOB THOMAS 3 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) 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. "The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason. Four years after the show ended in 1978, Newhart went on to the equally successful "Newhart" series in which he was the proprietor of a New England inn populated by more eccentrics.
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Granted, I was a little bit too young for her. I think I was 8 or 9 when The Bob Newhart Show was on. Of course, now when I see any reruns, I'm older than her . . .
Best Series Finale ever ... especially since they leaked two other “surprise” endings about Daryl and Daryl and about Bob getting “killed” in the end.
Thanks. Going onto my rental list . . .
Believe it or not, my daughter and son-in-law are still smoking and his mom died of lung cancer and my daughter is an RN on an oncology unit.
As Yul Brynner said before he died of lung cancer, "Don't ever smoke, and if you smoke, quit." I can't agree with him more.
Carolyn
bttt
My brother quit smoking just before midnight of his 25th birthday. He saved enough money by not buying cigarettes to buy a car. I’m sure now with the increased taxation plus litigation money, one could afford to buy an even better car by quitting smoking.
It's his vice. Maybe he'll try again, but he's been sober for over a dozen years now, and the last time he made a serious effort to stop smoking, he made it quite a while before the thought crossed his mind, "You know, I could really use a beer right now." He put on his jacket, went outside and lit one up.
One thing at a time. Hopefully, he'll try again.
Yes, Suzanne was a feature of the early years of TV, incl. the first season of Route 66. Her ep is on the first disc of that DVD collection. She plays a revival singer in a gospel tent who is later unmasked as an abused woman who killed her boyfriend.
At the library on Friday I checked out a DVD of the first season of the Bob Newhart Show. A strange coincidence.
Thanks for the info. I found the episode guide description from Nov 1960 - her character was named Lotti Montana.
I’m still trying to “re-find” which episode was filmed in and around my childhood hometown later in the series. They didn’t shoot that many actually on Rte66, but this one was either supposed to be in Tulsa, or they didn’t actually say where they were - but it was really shot in the Tulsa vicinity (which was on Rte66).
While I didn’t go see the shoot, lots of friends and neighbors did. And of course, I watched all the episodes at the time, including that one - but memory fails me on the plot details. I found it once when I first got online, but whatever notes I saved are on my older computers or one of many disks.
Can’t wait to get my hands on those DVD releases!
It has been nice to hear all the good things being said on TV about Suzanne - her funeral is tomorrow and I know there will probably be some laughter among the many tears, as she would’ve wanted it. The Hollywood Star ceremony is a week from Thursday, on what would’ve been her 71st birthday.
She was indeed the perfect companion to his deadpan humor. She’s given a lot of people some great entertainment, and will be missed by many.
She was terrific in an episode of Diagnosis Murder. She played a surgeon who turned out to be the killer.
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