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Subject: Re: R.I.P. Loretta Swit ('Hot Lips' Houlihan in TV's "M*A*S*H")
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 23:04:57 -0400
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On 5/30/2025 6:20 PM, Your Name wrote:
> 
> 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
>     -----------------------------------------
>     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."
> 
> 
>     <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20qzlxz1w0o> 

I've long believed (because I heard somewhere) that 'Miss Piggy' was 
visually modeled on Swit, but Google seems not to know of it.