Sally Kellerman
1937 - 2022
Actress Sally Kellerman died last month at the age of 84. Her 156 acting credits stretch back to the 1950's and include just about any television series that you can name. from Ozzie and Harriett to Dobie Gillis to Alfred Hitchcock Hour to My Three Sons to Mannix, Hawaii Five-0, and Columbo, and an appearance in the very first season of Star Trek. You get the idea.
She became famous when she appeared as the by-the-book head nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the 1970 movie M*A*S*H. She was nominated for an Academy Award, and who could possibly forget the scene where the naughty surgeons of the 4077 collapsed the tent walls when Hot Lips was taking a shower.
I would like to recommend, however, a 2005 movie called Boynton Beach Club. Kellerman co-starred with Dyan Cannon, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Len Cariou, and Michael Nouri in this comedy about romance and dating among widows and divorcees living in a seniors community in Florida. It was a funny and touching comedy when we watched it back in '05, and one that might have some relevance to me at this point in my life, so I look forward to finding it and watching it again.
Kellerman was suffering from dementia at the time of her death, but her filmography shows that she worked fairly steadily right up through 2017, and isn't steady work all that a working actor really wants?
RIP Sally Kellerman.
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