Loretta Swit, the US actress who introduced Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan to life within the seminal Korean War comedy sequence “M*A*S*H” has died. She was 87.
Swit who performed the high-strung however flirty Houlihan for your complete TV run of the smash sequence, was nominated for 10 Emmy awards for her work, profitable two of them.
Her loss of life, at her house in Manhattan, was introduced by her publicist, US media reported. AFP has sought affirmation.
“M*A*S*H,” which sprang from an Oscar-winning 1970 movie, aired initially in 1972 and was a success till it completed in 1983.
The comedy was set in a cell hospital for the US Army in the course of the Korean War, and starred Alan Alda as Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce.
The sequence tackled a variety of points from the tragic to the light-hearted, and was typically seen as a satire on US involvement in Vietnam — a conflict that was nonetheless occurring when it first started airing.
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