The Emmy-nominated actress Suzanne Pleshette was honored Thursday with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the same day she would have celebrated her 71st anniversary.

Pleshette died Jan. 19 of respiratory failure after battling lung cancer.

The television, film and theater star was best known for her role as Bob Newhart’s wife on the CBS comedy “The Bob Newhart Show,” which ran from 1972 to 1978.

Newhart was present Friday for the ceremony, as were Pleshette’s longtime friend Tina Sinatra, daughter of legendary singer Frank Sinatra, and past “Newhart Show” costar Marcia Wallace.

Pleshette received the walk's 2,355th star. The event had been planned before her death. According to E! Online, the husky-voiced entertainer had requested that her star be placed in front of lingerie emporium Fredericks of Hollywood.

“Many people walk through your life and very few people leave footprints on your heart,” Wallace said. “She left footprints on my heart, and now we can all leave our footprints on her star. She'd love it.”

Newhart was equally emotional about the event and remembered Pleshette fondly: “The only thing that exceeds her talent and her beauty was her bravery, because she was one of the greatest women.”

As for Sinatra, who accepted the star on Pleshette's behalf, she said: “The thought of her with Johnny Grant really makes me feel better,” referring to Hollywood's longtime honorary mayor, who passed away on Jan. 9 after years of presiding over star unveilings.

“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,” Sinatra added, as quoted by E! Online.