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Sally Kellerman, Who Was Oscar-Nommed as ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in ‘MASH,’ Dies at 84

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Carmel Dagan Staff WriterSally Kellerman, who was Oscar nominated for her supporting role as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s “MASH” feature film, died Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif.

She was 84.Her publicist Alan Eichler confirmed her death.Among her other roles were a cameo in Altman’s “The Player,” a professor in Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School” and a Starfleet officer in the “Star Trek” episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.”The willowy blonde actress with the characteristically throaty voice appeared in two Altman films in 1970; the other was the more experimental “Brewster McCloud,” in which she starred with Bud Cort and Michael Murphy.

In this film, which did not have a conventional narrative, Kellerman played Louise, the mother of the bewinged Cort character, Brewster.

She starred next opposite Alan Arkin in the Gene Saks-directed Neil Simon effort “Last of the Red Hot Lovers”; the Cleveland Press said: “Sally Kellerman as the first woman makes out the best, managing to be both alluring and hostile.

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