It's never too late to honor the best in the business.
Suzanne Pleshette posthumously received the 2,355th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, which would have been her 71st birthday.
The Emmy-nominated star of The Bob Newhart Show died Jan. 19 of respiratory failure after battling lung cancer.
While protocol dictates that entertainers cannot be nominated to receive a posthumous star until five years after their death, Pleshette's honor had already been in the works, replete with a request from the husky-voiced actress to get a panel in front of lingerie emporium Fredericks of Hollywood.
Longtime friend Tina Sinatra, Ol' Blue Eyes' daughter, accepted the star on Pleshette's behalf, while past costars Newhart and Marcia Wallace spoke at the ceremony.
"The thought of her with Johnny Grant really makes me feel better," Sinatra said, referring to Hollywood's honorary mayor, who passed away Jan. 9 at 84.
"And it was Johnny who said to me not three and a half months ago, 'Suzie doesn’t have a star. We ought to do something about that.' And we were shot out of a cannon, and thanks to Johnny, who was always doing something good for somebody, and I'm sure he still is, we got this on the fast track."
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman Ana Martinez-Holler told E! Online last week that Sinatra called her up to see if the ceremony was still a go.
"My response was, 'Tina, Johnny and Suzanne would have wanted us to do it. The show must go on. And it will be great!"
Those who gathered to pay tribute to the late stage and screen star certainly made the most of the opportunity to sing Pleshette's praises.
"The only thing that exceeds her talent and her beauty was her bravery, because she was one of the greatest women," said Newhart, who was Pleshette's sitcom husband for six years—and then once more over a decade later during the surprise finale of Newhart in 1990.
"Many people walk through your life and very few people leave footprints on your heart," Wallace, who played the sassy receptionist in psychiatrist Dr. Robert Hartley's office, told the crowd. "She left footprints on my heart, and now we can all leave our footprints on her star. She'd love it."
Added former Laugh-In star Arte Johnson: "Suzanne Pleshette deserves not just one star, she deserves a whole bunch of stars. She was a terrific, wonderful girl.''