On this day, December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born.

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Updated: he tweeted again this year.

Large Marge would have been 85 today.

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Sun Dec 6, 2020: On December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born.

Large Marge would have been {85} 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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[PSPS]

1. Alice Nunn had dozens of character roles in her career

Her only recurring roles that I know of were in the 60's TV series "Camp Runamuck" where the played the role of "Mahala May Gruenecker" and the 70's bomb "Westside Medical" where she played the role of "Carrie." She was 57 years old when she played "Large Marge" and was in about a dozen more productions before she passed away four years later in 1988.