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Suzanne Pleshette
Actress
Female
Born
Jan 31, 1937
Hometown
New York City, Ne...
Died
Jan 19, 2008
Death Place
Los Angeles, Cali...
Suzanne Pleshette was an American actress, on stage, screen and television. After beginning her career in theatre, she began appearing in films in the early 1960s, such as Rome Adventure (1962) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). She later appeared… Read More
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Kim Morgan: For Valentine's Day: Celebrate With Six Disastrous DatesHuffington Post - Feb 13, 2013
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Pat Gallagher: Bob Newhart Gives His Take On Proctologists And Why He Never Won An EmmyHuffington Post - Feb 11, 2013
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Mel Stuart, Director Of 'Willy Wonka,' Dead At 83Seattle Pi - Aug 10, 2012
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CHILDHOOD
1937
Birth
Born on January 31, 1937.
TWENTIES
1961
24 Years Old
In February 1961, she succeeded Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan Macy opposite 14-year-old Patty Duke's Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.
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1964
27 Years Old
Pleshette's 1964 marriage to her Rome Adventure and A Distant Trumpet co-star Troy Donahue ended acrimoniously after just eight months.
1966
29 Years Old
She worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film Nevada Smith, was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner in a pair of films, the drama Mister Buddwing and the western comedy Support Your Local Gunfighter.
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THIRTIES
1968
31 Years Old
Her second husband was Texas oilman Tom Gallagher, to whom she was wed from 1968 until his death from lung cancer on January 21, 2000.
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FORTIES
1984
47 Years Old
Her 1984 situation comedy, Suzanne Pleshette is Maggie Briggs, was canceled after seven episodes.
FIFTIES
1989
52 Years Old
In 1989, she played the role of Christine Broderick in the NBC drama, Nightingales, which only lasted one season.
1990
53 Years Old
In 1990, Pleshette portrayed Manhattan hotelier Leona Helmsley in the television movie Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean, which garnered her Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations.
1994
57 Years Old
In addition, she starred opposite Hal Linden in the 1994 sitcom The Boys Are Back.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2000
63 Years Old
Asked about children in an October 2000 interview, Pleshette stated: "I certainly would have liked to have had Tommy’s children.
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2001
64 Years Old
In 2001, she married Bob Newhart's former Newhart co-star Tom Poston. They were married until his death from respiratory failure in Los Angeles on April 30, 2007.
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2006
69 Years Old
On August 11, 2006, her agent Joel Dean announced that Pleshette was being treated for lung cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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2007
70 Years Old
She was later hospitalized for a pulmonary infection and developed pneumonia, causing her to be hospitalized for an extended period. She arrived at a Bob Newhart Show cast reunion in September 2007 in a wheelchair, causing concern about her health, although she insisted that she was "cancer free" (she was seated in a regular chair during the actual telecast).
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She received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television on January 31, 2008.
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