Suzanne Pleshette: 1937-2008

Actress Suzanne Pleshette poses in 1974. Star of films and Broadway plays, the actress who found her greatest fame portraying Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on TV's "The Bob Newhart Show," died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, at her Los Angeles home at age 70. Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure.

Actress Suzanne Pleshette poses during a discussion for TV Land's 35th anniversary tribute to "The Bob Newhart Show," Sept. 5, 2007, in Beverly Hills, Calif. She died on Jan. 20, 2008, before she could get her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony was scheduled on her birthday, Jan. 31.

Suzanne Pleshette speaks during a discussion for TV Land's 35th anniversary tribute to "The Bob Newhart Show," Sept. 5, 2007, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pleshette played Bob Newhart's wife for six years on the CBS hit and was there when Newhart woke up from his dream in the surprise series finale of "Newhart."

The cast of the "Bob Newhart Show." In front row from left are Suzanne Pleshette, Bob Newhart and Dick Martin. back row from left are Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily and Jack Riley. Pleshette played Newhart's wife no-nonsense wife, Emily Hartley, for six years on the show and was there when Newhart woke up from his dream in the surprise series finale of "Newhart."

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, from "The Bob Newhart Show," arrives at CBS's 75th anniversary celebration Nov. 2, 2003, in New York. The husky-voiced actress launched her film career with Jerry Lewis in 1958 in "The Geisha Boy." She went on to appear in numerous television shows, including "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Playhouse 90" and "Naked City."

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, poses with her husband, actor Tom Poston on July 24, 2002. Poston, who was Pleshette's her third husband, died in April 2007. The couple met onstage in the 1959 Broadway comedy "The Golden Fleecing," but didn't marry him until more than 40 years later. Both appeared in Bob Newhart's TV comedies.