{"id":1341995,"date":"2022-02-25T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1341995"},"modified":"2022-02-25T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:52:59","slug":"oscar-nominated-mash-actor-sally-kellerman-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oscar-nominated-mash-actor-sally-kellerman-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-nominated \u2018MASH\u2019 Actor Sally Kellerman Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foscar-nominated-mash-actor-sally-kellerman-dies-at-84%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1341995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan in director Robert Altman\u2019s 1970 film \u201cMASH,\u201d died Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kellerman died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager and publicist Alan Eichler said. She was 84.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kellerman had a career of more than 60 years in film and television. She played a college professor who was returning student Rodney Dangerfield\u2019s love interest in the 1986 comedy \u201cBack to School.\u201d And she was a regular in Altman\u2019s films, appearing in 1970\u2032s \u201cBrewster McCloud,\u201d 1992\u2032s \u201cThe Player\u201d and 1994\u2032s \u201cReady to Wear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she would always be best known for playing Major Houlihan, a straitlaced, by-the-book Army nurse who is tormented by rowdy doctors during the Korean War in the army comedy \u201cMASH.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20011586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1319329883.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20011586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1319329883-1024x691-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Kellerman attends a celebration remembering film producer David O Selznick, at an unspecified venue on the campus of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, 16th April 1975. Selznick had died ten years earlier, in June 1965. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)\" width=\"990\" height=\"668\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sally Kellerman attends a celebration remembering film producer David O Selznick, at an unspecified venue on the campus of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, 16th April 1975. Selznick had died ten years earlier, in June 1965. (Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the film\u2019s key scene, and its peak moment of misogyny, a tent where Houlihan is showering is pulled open and she is exposed to an audience of cheering men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t a hospital, this is an insane asylum!\u201d she screams at her commanding officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She carries on a torrid affair with the equally uptight Major Frank Burns, played by Robert Duvall, demanding that he kiss her \u201chot lips\u201d in a moment secretly broadcast over the camp\u2019s public address speakers, earning her the nickname.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">Kellerman said Altman brought out the best in her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">\u201cIt was a very freeing, positive experience,\u201d she told Dick Cavett in a 1970 TV interview. \u201cFor the first time in my life I took chances, I didn\u2019t suck in my cheeks, or worry about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, but her best supporting actress was its only acting nod despite a cast that included Duvall, Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">The movie would be turned into a TV series that lasted 11 seasons, with Loretta Swit in Kellerman\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20011610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-52025684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20011610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-52025684-559x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Actress Sally Kellerman arrives at the 70th Annual Academy Awards ceremony 23 March at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo credit should read VINCE BUCCI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">Sally Clare Kellerman was born in 1937 in Long Beach, California, the daughter of a piano teacher and an oil executive, moving to Los Angeles as a child and attending Hollywood High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">Her initial interest was in jazz singing, and she was signed to a contract with Verve records at age 18. She opted to pursue acting and didn\u2019t put out any music until 1972, when she released the album \u201cRoll With the Feeling.\u201d She would sing on the side, and sometimes in roles, throughout her career, releasing her last album, \u201cSally,\u201d in 2007.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She took an acting class at Los Angeles City College and appeared in a stage production of \u201cLook Back in Anger\u201d with classmate Jack Nicholson and several other future stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She worked mostly in television early in her career, with a lead role in 1962\u2032s \u201cCheyenne\u201d and guest appearances on \u201cThe Twilight Zone, \u201cThe Outer Limits,\u201d \u201cThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour\u201d and \u201cBonanza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">Her appearance in the original \u201cStar Trek\u201d pilot as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner won her cult status among fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She would work primarily in film in the years following \u201cMASH,\u201d including 1972\u2032s \u201cLast of the Red Hot Lovers\u201d and 1975\u2032s \u201cRafferty and the Gold Dust Twins,\u201d both with Alan Arkin, 1973\u2032s \u201cSlither\u201d with James Caan, 1979\u2032s \u201dA Little Romance\u201d with Laurence Olivier and 1980\u2032s \u201cFoxes\u201d with Jodie Foster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She would work into her 80s, with several acclaimed television performances in her final years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She starred in the comedy series \u201cDecker\u201d with Tim Heidecker and played comedian Mark Maron\u2019s mother on his series \u201cMaron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">\u201cSally Kellerman was radiant and beautiful and fun and so great to work with,\u201d Maron said on Twitter Thursday. \u201cMy real mom was very flattered and a bit jealous. I\u2019m sad she\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">And in 2014 she was nominated for an Emmy for her recurring role on \u201cThe Young and the Restless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">Kellerman was married to television producer Rick Edelstein from 1970 to 1972 and to movie producer Jonathan D. Krane from 1980 until his death in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\">She is survived by her son Jack and daughter Claire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan in director Robert Altman\u2019s 1970 film \u201cMASH,\u201d died Thursday. 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