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Related: About this forumOn December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born.
Large Marge would have been 83 today.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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Plot
Pee-wee Herman has a heavily accessorized bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor and enemy, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike is stolen while he is shopping at a mall. The police tell Pee-wee that they cannot help him find his bike. Pee-wee thinks Francis took it, and confronts him. Francis' father convinces Pee-wee that Francis did not steal the bike. Pee-wee then offers a $10,000 reward for his bike. Francis, who did indeed pay to have a friend steal the bike, is frightened by Pee-wee's relentlessness and then pays to have it sent away. After holding an unsuccessful meeting to locate the bike, Pee-wee angrily rejects Dottie's offers of help. Desperate, he visits "Madam Ruby", a phony psychic. Ruby, inspired by the Al and Moe's Bargain Basement shop across the street, tells Pee-wee that his bike is in the basement of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. Pee-wee hitchhikes to Texas, getting rides from a fugitive named Mickey and from Large Marge, the ghost of a deceased truck driver.
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Plot
Pee-wee Herman has a heavily accessorized bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor and enemy, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike is stolen while he is shopping at a mall. The police tell Pee-wee that they cannot help him find his bike. Pee-wee thinks Francis took it, and confronts him. Francis' father convinces Pee-wee that Francis did not steal the bike. Pee-wee then offers a $10,000 reward for his bike. Francis, who did indeed pay to have a friend steal the bike, is frightened by Pee-wee's relentlessness and then pays to have it sent away. After holding an unsuccessful meeting to locate the bike, Pee-wee angrily rejects Dottie's offers of help. Desperate, he visits "Madam Ruby", a phony psychic. Ruby, inspired by the Al and Moe's Bargain Basement shop across the street, tells Pee-wee that his bike is in the basement of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. Pee-wee hitchhikes to Texas, getting rides from a fugitive named Mickey and from Large Marge, the ghost of a deceased truck driver.
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On December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2020
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PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)1. A sound, like a garbage truck fell off the Empire State Building...
PSPS
(14,157 posts)2. This threw me. I thought you were tallking about Alice Nunn herself!
mahatmakanejeeves
(61,147 posts)3. I just looked her up. She's been gone for quite some time.
Alice Nunn
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Alice Elizabeth Nunn (October 10, 1927 July 1, 1988) was an American film and theatre actress.
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In 1988, Nunn died at her apartment in West Hollywood, California, of a heart attack at age 60.
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Alice Elizabeth Nunn (October 10, 1927 July 1, 1988) was an American film and theatre actress.
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In 1988, Nunn died at her apartment in West Hollywood, California, of a heart attack at age 60.
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