She turned 83 — or she would have had the character not perished in a terrible accident.
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is an embarrassment of riches. It might even be director Tim Burton’s finest film. But among its most beloved moments — up there with Amazing Larry’s new hair, that epic studio lot chase finale, and the basement at the Alamo — is this: Large Marge, the ghost trucker who gives our man-child hero a terrifying ride, and whose stop motion-assisted corpse reveal has traumatized generation after generation. Well, it’s her birthday. Today would have been Large Marge’s 83rd birthday… if it hadn’t been for that WRECK!https://t.co/O8kPjXUNyX pic.twitter.com/IHoPAaqOp0 Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) December 5,2020 The news was shared by Pee-wee himself — or, rather, star Paul Reubens, in character — on Twitter, with a photo that shows the memorial in a truck stop populated by those who remember her well. Born on December 5,1937, she turns 83 — or she would have had she not met a grisly end on January 11, 1974, at only 37. And with that news, a lot of Pee-wee fans chimed in to pay tribute to one of cinema’s great one-scene wonders.
