This could probably go into the TV section, but Pleshette had a lengthy stage and film career (and lots of other TV, too) before she found her niche with Newhart (1972-1978), a role she reprised so memorably in the final scene of the subsequent NEWHART. She was one of the gals in ROME ADVENTURE, with her husband of a few months, Troy Donahue. I liked her as the ambiguous Annie Hayworth in THE BIRDS; opposite Glenn Ford in FATE IS THE HUNTER and Steve McQueen in NEVADA SMITH; adding a little sex appeal to the character actor scientists in THE POWER; varying her image and seducing son Tom Berenger in the TV miniseries FLESH & BLOOD (1979); as the "queen on mean" in a 1990 TV movie about Leona Helmsley (her fourth Emmy nomination); and lending her inimitable throaty voice to the English-language version of SPIRITED AWAY. She was a regular in Disney's live-action pictures; I probably saw them all as a kid. I last saw her in a doc about Lew Wasserman, 2005's THE LAST MOGUL; she was a close friend of his wife, Edie. Her death follows that last April of her third husband, NEWHART regular (and BOB NEWHART drop-in) Tom Poston. Ever reliable and no-nonsense in whatever role she played, she will be missed.

Somehow, the National Enquirer "called this." I was standing in line at the grocery store Thursday evening, and a headline read something like, "Suzanne Pleshette's Final Photo." I skimmed the article, which read as though she were already dead. I knew she wasn't (I would have heard about it), but I figured she didn't have much longer. Not exactly the Enquirer's classiest move, though what should we expect?

She'll be Bob Newhart's "wife" forever. She was very good and sharp on THE BOB NEWHART SHOW. Her relationship with TV Bob is interesting because it was a rare TV sitcom marriage that didn't involve children, a smart decision that gave the writers so many different stories to tell.

It's almost anathema for a marriage-based sitcom not to involve children. EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND cleverly skirted the issue by merely referring to them from time to time; I wasn't a regular viewer, but I don't think I ever saw them. Bob and Emily made marriage, kids or not, look good. (She didn't have any, but Newhart has four in real life. I don't think he or his TV wives ever had kids, however.)

On BOB there was a daughter. Can't remember if there were any on GEORGE AND LEO.

Pleshette and Newhart made a perfect couple to watch when growing up - you really felt the two characters loved each other and enjoyed being around each other and made the idea of marriage look like a good one. Much different from the normal stereotype of how couples were to behave in sitcoms (and are still portrayed today).

Strangely enough I was watching the first episode of WILD WILD WEST this past week with Pleshette. Even in what would typically be a heroine in distress role she's given a little more meat to her dialogue, not to mention a back-history with James West to liven things up a bit.

Great actress.

Suzanne Pleshette is the main reason I pull my copy of THE BIRDS off the shelf every so often. Her Annie Hayworth remains, for me, an ineffably sexy mystery woman that I can't take my eyes off whenever she's on screen.

She was kind of a broad, but with class. I'm proud that she was a graduate of my high school, Performing Arts. I agree that her haunted and haunting performance in THE BIRDS is part of the film's magic - I think Tippi knows she's going to have to try to act up to Pleshette's level in their scenes together.

To have seen her as Annie Sullivan after Bancroft left THE MIRACLE WORKER, at the age of twenty-two!