Carole Cook dies at 98: Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show star dies of heart failure
Carole Cook dies at 98: Sixteen Candles star and Lucille Ball protégé passes away due to heart failure just three days before her birthday
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Carole Cook, who starred in Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show, died just three days short of her 99th birthday.
The legendary actress died in Beverly Hills at the age of 98 due to cardiac arrest on Wednesday which her husband Tom Troupe announced according to the hollywood reporter.
She was one of Hollywood icon Lucille Ball’s best friends and protégé, which led to multiple appearances on The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy.
Sad: Carole Cook (pictured in 2019), who starred in Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show, died just three days shy of her 99th birthday.
Cook worked on 18 episodes of The Lucy Show from 1963 to 1968 while playing Lucy Carmichael’s friend Thelma Green.
She then starred with Ball in five episodes of Here’s Lucy from 1969 to 1974.
Another of her leading roles was that of Helen, the sensitive grandmother of Molly Ringwald’s character, Samantha ‘Sam’ Baker, in the classic 1984 film Sixteen Candles.
Bond: The legendary actress passed away in Beverly Hills at age 98 due to heart failure on Wednesday, her husband Tom Troupe announced according to The Hollywood Reporter, the famous couple are seen out and about in West Hollywood in January 2019.
The talented star also starred opposite Don Knotts in the 1964 comedy film The Incredible Mr. Limpet, where Knotts played a man named Henry Limpet who turns into a talking fish and helps the US Navy to Locate and destroy Nazi submarines.