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Lynne Marie Stewart, the actress known for roles in Pee-wee’s Playhouse and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, has died. She was 78.

Elvira star Cassandra Peterson was one of several to pay tribute to the actress Friday on Instagram after coming up together at The Groundlings in Los Angeles and appearing in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) and The Elvira Show (1993) together.

“My heart is breaking upon hearing the news of my dear friend @lynnestewart78 Lynne Stewart’s passing,” wrote Peterson on Instagram. “One of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived. The iconic Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse: She’ll always be ‘the most beautiful woman in Puppetland.'”

Born Dec. 14, 1946 in L.A., Stewart was a member of The Groundlings in the ’70s, where she met Peterson, Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman.

Stewart was most known and beloved for playing Miss Yvonne and other roles in Reubens’ Pee-wee franchise,...

Lynne Marie Stewart, best known for her role as Miss Yvonne in Pee-wee's Playhouse and other projects featuring Paul Reubens' Pee-wee Herman, has passed away. She was 78 years old.

The news of Stewart's passing was announced by Cassandra Peterson, better known by her Elvira persona, in a post on Instagram. Peterson, who was friends with Stewart, shared an image with the caption noting, "My heart is breaking upon hearing the news of my dear friend Lynne Stewart’s passing. One of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived. The iconic Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse: She’ll always be 'the most beautiful woman in Puppetland.'”

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Stewart appeared in Peterson's 1988 film, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and she'd later reunite with Peterson for The Elvira Show in 1993. In the image posted, Peterson and...

In 1993 Cassandra Petersen and writing partner John Paragon collaborated on an idea for a sitcom that would’ve brought the iconic Elvira: Mistress of the Dark into living rooms across America and beyond. Pitched to CBS, The Elvira Show was given the green light for a half-hour pilot episode. Had The Elvira Show taken off, it might have resembled Married with Children by way of Dark Shadows. The support of a TV network would have enabled Elvira (Petersen) to break into mainstream culture, become a household name and not only appeal to those of us drawn to pop culture with a distinctly Goth flavor. But alas, it was not to be. Family values prevailed and Elvira’s return to the small screen was canceled.

I've always had a soft spot for Elvira -- no, that came out wrong. Whoops, so did that. Damn, but the horror-hostess's penchant for double-entendre gets into your blood quicker than a T-virus. Suffice to say that Cassandra Peterson's 1980s horror hostess brought so much innocent fun to the phrase 'buxom charm' as to nearly pass the CBS 'family-friendly' sitcom-test in 1993, when the comedy pilot The Elvira Show was made, with Peterson and Soap star Katherine Helmond vamping it up in dark domesticity - with the aid of a talking cat that will be very familiar to fans of the CBS-distributed Sabrina The Teenage Witch (which came into existence three years later). The Elvira Show wasn't the first time that the marketing folks tried to leverage the 'Elvira' charm only to chicken out; Peterson's ad-campaign appearances in the 1980s for Coors beer showed her image in a...