By: steve rowell - 6th February 2008 at 01:54
Suzanne Pleshette got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday.. less than two weeks after she died of respiratory failure.
On what would have been her 71st birthday.. Pleshette received the walk’s 2,355th star.
By: J Boyle - 29th January 2008 at 16:49
And ironic — her best known character, Emily, the wife of Chicago psychologist Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show (1972-77), had a great fear of flying.
I did not know that.
Probably as result of her being the sole survivor of Consolidated Airways flight 22 from LAX to SEA. The DC-6/9 crashed minutes after takeoff during an unsuccessful forced landing on a beach.* 🙂
She was probably afraid of birds too.** 🙂 🙂
*The synopsis of her 1964 film, Fate is the Hunter.
** She played the unsuccessful love interest of Rod Taylor (the captain of the ill-fated flight 22..see above) and was plucked to death in The Birds.
By: Flying-A - 29th January 2008 at 03:11
A thread about her on this forum is appropriate since one of her first big screen roles was a USAF two-striper in The Geisha Boy (1958).
And ironic — her best known character, Emily, the wife of Chicago psychologist Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show (1972-77), had a great fear of flying. Then again, their neighbor Howard, an airline navigator, wasn’t exactly the greatest representative of commercial aviation.
Tonight, the American Life TV Network honored her with a marathon of episdoes of that series, starting with one in which she joins her husband’s madcap therapy group on an airline flight to cure them of that fear.
By: J Boyle - 22nd January 2008 at 17:19
Didn’t we all fall in love with her as boys watching her stupid movies with Dean Jones?
For men of a certain age who were once boys of a certain age…she was hot.
Seeing her on the old Johnny Carson show, she came across as a real “dame”…a bit bawdy and always fun.
I wonder if they still make them like that?:D
Too many of today’s actresses (Gweneth, Scarlett etc.) seem to be too serious and far too neurotic…
By: Distiller - 22nd January 2008 at 08:07
Didn’t we all fall in love with her as boys watching her stupid movies with Dean Jones?
By: J Boyle - 22nd January 2008 at 04:32
Let’s not forget her two aviation themed films….
As the sole survivor of an airline crash in 1964’s Fate is the Hunter…
and as an air racing daughter of a flying service operator in the 1967 television film Wings of Fire. BTW: Someone on the IMDB says she flew a Bearcat…I thought it was a Mustang.
She was always great to watch…especially in the old The Bob Newhart Show.
By: Newforest - 21st January 2008 at 09:09
Falling like nine pins these days, obituary from the L.A. Times, doubt whether many younger readers will remember!:(
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