Who is sally kellerman

The best role in something. I thanked the long-fingered man, took the script, and rushed outside. I didn't even want to get home before I cracked open the script to get a better look at this "best" role in the picture.

Leaning against the building, I began thumbing through the pages looking for my part. And looking. And still looking. On page forty, maybe I found a single line. Later I found a few more. Fourteen years in Hollywood and my "best role" is the nine-line part of a solider named Hot Lips? I staggered home, angry and bitter, and I called my agent, indignant. So I read the script again and then agreed to take another meeting with Altman, it was just the two of us this time, and I arrived in a huff.

I didn't know him from Adam, but I hated him for thinking he could fool me. Hot Lips was a memory before the script was even halfway over. But as long I had come this far, I was going to tell him what I thought. I had spent years playing roles on TV. I was already thirty-one years old. I didn't want a career playing hard-bitten drunks in Chanel suits who get slapped by their husbands. This movie was supposed to be a comedy.

I'd done two episodes of Bonanza just to prove I could be funny. I was capable of so much more than a few lines. I was capable of a "best" role--and so was my character. And why can't she do that? I was ranting. When I finally came up for air, Bob just casually leaned back in his chair. He said, simply, "Why couldn't she? You could end up with something or nothing. Why not take a chance? The minute he said that, something in me shifted.

Here I was having a tantrum in his office, and there he was leaning back in his chair, smiling. Everything about him was comfortable and relaxed.

So sure. So it was settled. The role of Hot Lips O'Houlihan was mine. The movie was MASH I think he Robert Altman made up my part because he wanted to work together. I loved it. Show all 13 episodes. Marla Templeton. The Watchbird voice.

Nora Frank. Cleo voice. Narrator voice. Denby Liz Houston. Adele Botsford. Irene Stanton. Birdie Tannen. Augusta Abernathy. Felicia Dane. TV Movie Counsellor.

Game Show? Joyce Dowling. Junie Cobb. Pteranodon voice. Jessica Rally. Shelley Darling. Clara Goodwater. Valerie Ostrow. Amy Hunter - Dr. Paradise Amy Hunter. Holly Parrish. Lauren Webb. Lise Bockweiss. Show all 12 episodes. Ann Goode. Lotta Crabtree. Kathleen Walker. Diana Walker. Eleanor Kalakua. Nina Gray. Liz Higher. Laura Crowell. For Kellerman, the role of Houlihan vaulted her to fame and earned her an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination.

Always making trouble. It made you better and made it fun," she said. Nevertheless, Kellerman said she had difficulty with one scene, where she briefly appears naked when the prankster surgeons lift up the walls of her shower tent. And if none of those ring a bell, perhaps it was her Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing commercials, or her recent run as Marc Maron's TV mom.

Her six-decade career has taken her to some fascinating places, which makes it easy to be a fan. She was born in Long Beach, California, but she and her family moved to San Fernando Valley when she was in the fifth grade.

The family moved again during her sophomore year of high school, which sent her to Hollywood High School. While she was acting in high school plays like Meet Me in St. Louis , she was still a lonely student.