R.I.P. Loretta Swit ('Hot Lips' Houlihan in TV's "M*A*S*H")

Loretta Swit of course took over the role as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan for the TV series. The character was first played by Sally Kellerman (who died in 2022) in the original movie.
    M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
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    Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for her role on the
    popular comedy TV series M*A*S*H, died on Friday, according
    to her representative.
    She died at her home in New York at age 87, her publicist
    Harlan Boll told the BBC. She likely died of natural causes,
    although a coroner's report is pending.
    On M*A*S*H, Swit played US Army nurse Major Margaret "Hot
    Lips" Houlihan. The series, which followed a mobile Army
    surgical hospital during the Korean war, ran for 11 seasons
    from 1974 to 1983.
    Swit was nominated for numerous awards, and appeared in
    nearly every episode of the series, including the finale
    which attracted a record 106m US viewers.
    The show remains one of the most successful and acclaimed
    series in US television history. Its season finale was the
    most watched episode of any TV series in history when it
    ended in 1983.
    As "Hot Lips," Swit played a tough but vulnerable Army nurse
    who gained the nickname after having an affair with
    Maj. Frank Burns, who was played by Larry Linville.
    The show used comedy and pranks to tackle tough issues like
    racism, sexism and the impacts of PTSD within the military.
    It was based on the 1968 book, "MASH: A Novel About Three
    Army Doctors," penned by an Army surgeon.
    Along with M*A*S*H, Swit also appeared in other TV shows,
    movies and even game shows over her career. She took to the
    Broadway stage in "Same Time, Next Year," "Mame" and "Shirley
    Valentine".
    "Acting is not hiding to me, it's revealing. We give you
    license to feel," she said in an interview with the Star
    magazine in 2010. "That's the most important thing in the
    world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're
    dead."
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