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Sally Kellerman

Sally Claire Kellerman (born June 2, 1936 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress and singer most famous for her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan in the film M*A*S*H (1970) for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Biography

Kellerman attended Hollywood High School where she was "bitten by the acting bug." She went on to Los Angeles City College. She also studied at the Actor's Studio in New York City. As a singer, Kellerman already had a recording contract with Verve Records when she was 18.

Kellerman made her film debut in Reform School Girl (1959). She reportedly almost talked herself out of her most famous role. She had an argument with M*A*S*H director Robert Altman after reading the script. She was incensed about the way her would be character, "Hot Lips," was humiliated. Altman said that her attitude and passion was exactly what he was looking for in the character.

Kellerman supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs.

She married director Rick Edelstein in 1970 but subsequently divorced. In 1980 she married Jonathan Krane. They separated in 1997.

Selected Filmography

  • That's Life! (1986)
  • Back to School (1986)
  • It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)
  • Lost Horizon (1973)
  • M*A*S*H (1970)
  • The Boston Strangler (1968)
  • Star Trek: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966) (TV)
  • Reform School Girl (1959)

Resources

  • Sally Kellerman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm001419/) at the Internet Movie Database
  • Sally Kellerman (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800015771&cf=biog&intl=us) at Yahoo! Movies
  • "Hotter than ever" (http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arspopuli/music/music.html), article in the Pasadena Weekly

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They separated in 1997. Her family was at her side. In 1980 she married Jonathan Krane. She died at her home from vasculitis at age 77. She married director Rick Edelstein in 1970 but subsequently divorced. Leigh served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Foundation, a medical-services provider for actors. Kellerman supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs. Leigh starred in more than sixty films, including:.

Altman said that her attitude and passion was exactly what he was looking for in the character. Leigh was granted a divorce, and married stockbroker Robert Brandt later that year in Las Vegas; they remained married until her death. She was incensed about the way her would be character, "Hot Lips," was humiliated. Curtis, who has admitted to cheating on her throughout their marriage, left Leigh in 1962 for the 17 year-old German co-star of his then-latest film. She had an argument with M*A*S*H director Robert Altman after reading the script. They had two children, Kelly and Jamie Lee. She reportedly almost talked herself out of her most famous role. Leigh married her third husband, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951.

Kellerman made her film debut in Reform School Girl (1959). Years later, she wrote a book about the making of that film, in which she dispelled the urban legends which had popped up around it, notably, about the immortal "shower scene." Her performance earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. As a singer, Kellerman already had a recording contract with Verve Records when she was 18. Leigh's best-known role was in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. Kellerman attended Hollywood High School where she was "bitten by the acting bug." She went on to Los Angeles City College. She also studied at the Actor's Studio in New York City. She left College of the Pacific, where she was studying music and psychology, after Wasserman secured a contract with MGM. Sally Claire Kellerman (born June 2, 1936 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress and singer most famous for her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan in the film M*A*S*H (1970) for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In what sounds like something out of a movie, Shearer showed talent agent Lew Wasserman the photograph she had seen of Jeanette while vacationing at the ski resort where the girl's parents worked.

"Hotter than ever" (http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arspopuli/music/music.html), article in the Pasadena Weekly. An only child, she was discovered by actress Norma Shearer, whose late husband Irving Thalberg had been a senior executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sally Kellerman (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800015771&cf=biog&intl=us) at Yahoo! Movies. Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 in Merced, California—October 3, 2004 in Beverly Hills) born Jeanette Helen Morrison was an American actress. Sally Kellerman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm001419/) at the Internet Movie Database. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) opposite Jamie Lee. Reform School Girl (1959). Bye Bye Birdie (1963).

Star Trek: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966) (TV). The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The Boston Strangler (1968). Psycho (1960). M*A*S*H (1970). Touch of Evil (1958). Lost Horizon (1973). The Black Shield of Falworth (1954).

It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980). Houdini (1953). Back to School (1986). Scaramouche (1952). That's Life! (1986). Angels in the Outfield (1951). Little Women (1949).