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. Past Honorees of this organization have included Jamie Lee Curtis and Sir Anthony Hopkins. In 1980 she married Jonathan Krane. Lansbury has graciously agreed to be the Guest of Honor at the 14th annual Gala and Fundraiser on April 16, 2005 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, 12-Step program of rehabilitation for women in need. She married director Rick Edelstein in 1970 but subsequently divorced. Today, Lansbury, a longtime resident of Brentwood, California takes time to support various philanthropic groups. Kellerman supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs. Lansbury's two twin brothers, Edgar Lansbury, was the producer of Godspell, the smash-hit broadway musical, in the 1970s.

Altman said that her attitude and passion was exactly what he was looking for in the character. A footnote is that one of Ms. She was incensed about the way her would be character, "Hot Lips," was humiliated. Interestingly, Lansbury was related by her half-sister Isolde's marriage to the late British actor, Peter Ustinov, and is today related by marriage of her stepson David Lansbury to the American actress Ally Sheedy. She had an argument with M*A*S*H director Robert Altman after reading the script. Lansbury's daughter, Deirdre Angela Shaw Battarrais, along with her Italian husband Enzo, today is co-manager of a popular cafe, Ristorante Positano, in West Los Angeles. She reportedly almost talked herself out of her most famous role. Her son, Anthony, was producer/director of Murder She Wrote, and is today a television executive.

Kellerman made her film debut in Reform School Girl (1959). Lansbury is the mother of two, stepmother of one, and a proud grandmother several times over. As a singer, Kellerman already had a recording contract with Verve Records when she was 18. Until Shaw's death in 2003, Lansbury enjoyed one of the longest and most prolific of show-business marriages. 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. Lansbury's career. 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. Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Ms.

"Hotter than ever" (http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arspopuli/music/music.html), article in the Pasadena Weekly. Lansbury was briefly married from 1945-46 to American actor Richard Cromwell when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. In 1948, Lansbury remarried, to Irish-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw. Sally Kellerman (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800015771&cf=biog&intl=us) at Yahoo! Movies. She recieved a a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. Sally Kellerman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm001419/) at the Internet Movie Database. She was named a Disney Legend in 1995. Reform School Girl (1959). In the early 1990s the British Government awarded Angela Lansbury the CBE.

Star Trek: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966) (TV). It was to be one of the longest running prime time detective drama series in US TV history and made her one of the highest paid actresses in the world and a record as the most nominated lead actress without a win in the prime time Emmy awards (with 12 nominations). The Boston Strangler (1968). As Jessica Fletcher in the long-running television series, Murder, She Wrote (1984 - 1996), she found her biggest success and a worldwide following. M*A*S*H (1970). She has received a Tony nomination for every lead role she has essayed on Broadway. Lost Horizon (1973). Lovett in Sondheim's ballad opera Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street earned her yet another Tony Award in 1979.

It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980). Her English music-hall turn as meat-pie entrepreneuse Mrs. Back to School (1986). Subsequent Tony awards were earned for Dear World (1969) and the first Broadway revival of Gypsy (1974). That's Life! (1986). Her appearance in 1966's Mame earned Lansbury her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Lansbury has received good reviews from her very first musical outing, the short-lived 1964 Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle.

She also did character work as the Dowager Empress in the less well-received animated film Anastasia in 1997. Potts in the Disney hit Beauty and the Beast (1991). She then turned to character voice work in animated films like The Last Unicorn (1984), winning a great deal of praise for her affectionate turn as the singing teapot Mrs. She also played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd (1981).

She also received a Golden Globe as a similarly distant mother in the comedy, The World of Henry Orient. Her performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1963) as the evil, manipulative mother who turned her son into an assassin won much praise and a third Oscar nomination. She made her Academy Award nominated film debut in 1944, in the Charles Boyer/Ingrid Bergman film Gaslight, followed by another Oscar nomination for the Oscar Wilde film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and has since enjoyed a long and varied career, mainly as a film actress, appearing in everything from Samson and Delilah (1949) to Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Angela Lansbury (born October 16, 1925) is a British-born American actress and the granddaughter of politician George Lansbury.