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Loretta Swit

Loretta Swit (born on November 4, 1937 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA) is an actor. Starting in 1972, she played the character of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the television series M*A*S*H.

In 1981 Swit played the Cagney role in the movie pilot for the television series Cagney & Lacey.

It is said that Jim Henson found in her the inspiration for the Muppet character "Miss Piggy."



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. She ended her life as the companion of André Malraux. It is said that Jim Henson found in her the inspiration for the Muppet character "Miss Piggy.". As a young woman, in 1923, she was engaged to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In 1981 Swit played the Cagney role in the movie pilot for the television series Cagney & Lacey. For a number of years, Vilmorin was the mistress of Duff Cooper, the British ambassador to France. Starting in 1972, she played the character of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the television series M*A*S*H. They married in 1938 and soon divorced.

Loretta Swit (born on November 4, 1937 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA) is an actor. Her second husband was Count Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd, a much-married Austrian-born Slovakian playboy. They had three daughters: Jessie, Alexandra, and Helena. They married in 1925, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Hunt's family owned extensive properties, and divorced in 1937. Vilmorin's first husband was an American real-estate heir, Henry Leigh Hunt.

Her letters to Jean Cocteau were published to acclaim, after the deaths of both correspondents. Vilmorin's other works included "Juliette," "La lettre dans un taxi," "Les belles amours," "Saintes-Une fois," and "Intimités.". Her most famous novel was "Madame de", published in 1951, which was made into a celebrated film in 1953 starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux and directed by Vittorio de Sica. Scion of a great French seed company fortune and afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark, Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic and/or artistic milieus.

Louise Leveque de Vilmorin (1902-1969) was a French woman of letters: novelist, poet, journalist.