Carole Cook dead at 98: Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show star dies of heart failure

Carole Cook – who starred on Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show – has died just three days before her 99th birthday.

The legendary actress died of heart failure in Beverly Hills on Wednesday at the age of 98, according to The Hollywood Reporter, according to her husband Tom Troupe.

She was one of Hollywood icon Lucille Ball’s best friends and protégés, which led her to several appearances on The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy.

Sad: Carole Cook (pictured 2019) – who starred in Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show – has died just three days before her 99th birthday

Cook worked on 18 episodes of The Lucy Show from 1963 to 1968 when she played Lucy Carmichael’s friend Thelma Green.

From 1969 to 1974, she starred alongside Ball in five episodes of Here’s Lucy.

Another of her starring roles was Helen, the troublesome grandmother of Molly Ringwald’s character Samantha “Sam” Baker, in the 1984 classic film Sixteen Candles.

Bond: The legendary actress died of heart failure in Beverly Hills on Wednesday at the age of 98, according to The Hollywood Reporter, according to her husband Tom Troupe

The talented star also starred opposite Don Knotts in the 1964 comedy The Incredible Mr. Limpet, when Knotts played a man named Henry Limpet who turns into a talking fish and helps the US Navy locate and destroy Nazi submarines .