The death of TV great Suzanne Pleshette has gone largely overshadowed. She died one week ago. Pleshette was scheduled to get a long overdue star on the Walk of Fame next week, on her birthday. A new post at Variety has some words:

Pleshette found her greatest fame on TV, as Bob Newhart’s wife on the long-running, classic series. She was the mistress of the sexy, deadpan retort, her voice was a foghorn of innuendo and amused tolerance. (She was to receive a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 31.) But she began in films, and had she not functioned during the period in which the studio system withered away, she might have had a better screen career.

Plishette not only has worked with some of the greatest talent in Hollywood, she out shined many of them. I grew up with her as Bob’s wife on The Bob Newhart Show. It was one of the first “adult” shows I watched as a child, and the teaming of her and Newhart was gold. This great actress will be missed.