“Newhart” Actress Dies At 70
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“Newhart” Actress Dies At 70
Suzanne Pleshette, who starred as the wife on the long-running sitcom “The Bob Newhart” show, has died at her home in Los Angeles.
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(January 20, 2008)--Actress Suzanne Pleshette has died at her home in Los Angeles.

She was 70.

Pleshette made a mark in movies and the theater but is probably best known and loved for her role as the wife on the long-running TV sitcom, ``The Bob Newhart Show.''

Comedian Newhart played 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, playing the proprietor of a New England inn populated by more eccentrics and a different wife.

In that show's memorable finale, Newhart wakes up in his bedroom in Chicago and Pleshette, as the wife, informs him it was all a crazy dream.

Pleshette underwent chemotherapy in 2006 for lung cancer.

Her attorney says she died Saturday night of respiratory failure.


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