From Bob Newhart's Private Stash

Where Have All the Brunettes Gone?

SUZANNE PLESHETTE
January 31, 1937 - January 19, 2008

JEAN SIMMONS
January 31, 1929 - January 22, 2010

One Classy Dame

We've been missing Suzanne Pleshette lately; both her birthday (January 31, 1937) and the anniversary of her untimely death (January 19, 2008) are upcoming, but this gorgeous, glamorous lady deserves a mention at any given time.







She's best known, of course, for The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78); but as you might expect, we love the early 60's La Pleshette best, when she was co-starring with the likes of Ty Hardin, Rod Taylor, Bradford Dillman, and James Franciscus.









Suzanne Pleshette also was (briefly) married to Troy Donahue, a union which surely was second only to Liz and Dick in the annals of movie history.



We miss you, Suzanne! We're nutty for throaty, sexy, ballsy dames, and you're near the top of the heap.

Bravi

In searching for images of birthday boy George Chakiris (September 16, 1934), we stumbled across a fabulous site which featured, among others, a gallery of a German fan magazine called Bravo. Their aesthetic began and ended with tawdry, Confidential-style montages of unflattering papparazzi snaps, but for a golden epoch from the early-to-mid 1960's, they produced such lovely images as these: