Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding chief nurse of a line surgical unit during the Korean war against the successful television series “Mash”, died. She was 87 years old. Video reduced above: Remember those we lost in 2025, advertising, Harlan Boll, says that Swit died on Friday at his home in New York, probably from natural causes. Swit and Alan Alda were the longest actors on “Mash”, which was based on Robert Altman’s film in 1970. For 11 years from 1972 to 1983, turning around life 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, which gave its name. The two and a half hour final on February 28, 1983, attracted more than 100 million viewers, the most watched episode of any scripted series of all time. Rolling Stone magazine put “Mash” at n ° 25 for the best television programs of all time, while Time Out put it in n ° 34. He won the Impact prize at TV Land Awards 2009. He won a Peabody prize in 1975 “for the depth of his humor and the way in which the comedy is used to raise the spirit and also to offer a deep declaration nature of war. ” In Altman’s film in 1970, Houlihan was a one -dimensional character – a fucked up sex -young bimbo who embarrassed the nickname “hot lips”. His intimate moments were broadcast throughout the camp after someone planted a microphone under his bed. The Kellerman spoke to Houlihan in the cinematographic version and Swit took care of it for television, ending with deepening and creating it in a much more complete character. Sexual appetite has been played and it was not even called “hot lips” in recent years. Kalter, author of “The Complete Book of ‘Mash'” “to simplify it outside, I took each traumatic change that occurred in his life and I kept it. I did not enter the next episode as if it were a different character in a different room. She was a constantly evolving character; she never stopped developing.”
Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding chief nurse of a line surgical unit during the Korean war against the successful television series “Mash”, died. She was 87 years old.
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Publicist Harlan Boll says that Swit died on Friday at her home in New York, probably for natural causes.
Swit and Alan Alda were the longest actors on “Mash”, which was based on Robert Altman’s film in 1970, which was itself based on a novel by Richard Hooker, the pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger.
The CBS Show was broadcast for 11 years from 1972 to 1983, revolving around life at 40777th Mobile Army Hospital, which gave its name to the show. The two and a half hour final on February 28, 1983, attracted more than 100 million viewers, the most watched episode of any scripted series of all time.
Rolling Stone magazine put “Mash” at n ° 25 for the best television programs of all time, while Time Out put it in n ° 34. He won the Impact prize at TV Land Awards 2009. He won a Peabody prize in 1975 “for the depth of his humor and the way in which the comedy is used to lift the spirit and, on the nature of the war. “
In the film by Altman in 1970, Houlihan was a one -dimensional character – a bimbo shied by sex which won the nickname “Hot Lips”. His intimate moments were broadcast throughout the camp after someone planted a microphone under his bed.
Sally Kellerman played Houlihan in the cinematographic version and Swit took care of him for television, possibly by deepening and creating it in a much more complete character. Sexual appetite has been played and it was not even called “hot lips” in recent years.
The growing consciousness of feminism in the 1970s stimulated the transformation of Houlihan from caricature into a real person, but a large part of the change was due to Swit’s influence on the writers.
“Towards the second or third year, I decided to try to play it as a real person, intelligently, even if it meant to harm the jokes,” Swit told Suzy Kalter, author of “The Complete Book of ‘Mash'”
“To simplify outside, I took each traumatic change that occurred in his life and I kept it. I did not enter the next episode as if it were a different character in a different room. She was a constant flow character; she never stopped developing.”
