The American actress, singer and writer Sally Kellerman died yesterday at the age of 84 in Woodland Hills.
Sally Kellerman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress as Margaret “Hot Lips” Hooligan in Robert Altman’s feature film “MASH”.
Her public relations manager, Alan Eikler, confirmed her death, and Claire’s daughter added that she had been suffering from dementia for the past five years.
Born in Long Beach, California, Kellerman had a memorable role in the third episode of “Star Trek,” “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” in which she played Dr. Elizabeth Denner.
Her mother was a piano teacher and her father a Shell Oil executive.
While in high school in Hollywood, he starred in the musical Meet Me in St. Louis and gave a demo to the jazz impresario Norman Grange. He offered her a record deal with Verve, but when he was just 18, he turned it down.
In 1957 she made her film debut in Samuel Z. Arkoff’s film “Reform School Girl”.
She had a role in Truman Capote’s play “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, which was short-lived and auditioned for the role of Margaret Hooligan in the film MASH.
Sally Kellerman starred, among many others, in The Boston Strangler (1968), The April Fools (1969), Slither (1973), Lost Horizon (1973), Welcome to LA (1976), The Big Bus (1976), Foxes (1980), Blake Edwards’ That’s Life! (1986), All’s Fair (1989) and Boynton Beach Club (2005).
She also followed a career in singing and in 1972 released her first album, Roll With the Feelin.
“I love acting… but my dream is to have two babies and make one album a year, maybe one movie a year,” he said in 1973. “I do not want to do neither.”
Her second album, Sally, was released in 2009.
Her memoirs “Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life” were published in 2013.
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