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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSally Kellerman of M*A*S*H dies at 84
VarietyKellerman, who also sang and had a Grand Funk Railroad tune written for her, died Thursday morning at an assisted care facility in Woodland Hills after a battle with dementia, her son, Jack Krane, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A native Californian, Kellerman had a memorable role in the third Star Trek episode, Where No Man Has Gone Before, in which she portrayed Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, a human Starfleet officer aboard the USS Enterprise. When Dehner sacrifices her life, her dying words to Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) are, Im sorry you cant know what its like to be almost a god.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)She also had a memorable role in Robert Altman's "Ready to Wear."
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)May she rest in peace.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)K and r for her.
Igel
(35,320 posts)when my mother (or less often my father) would react reading about the death of the name pertaining to some person unknown to me.
Now I get it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-lanegan-dies-screaming-trees-singer-dead-age-57/ I liked the Screaming Trees, even if I was 35 or so when grunge sprang on the world.
dsc
(52,162 posts)she was great on that show. BTW she was almost cast in another iconic role (that of Cagney on Cagney and Lacey).
Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)Ms. Kellerman was Hot Lips in MASH, the movie.
Loretta Swit was Hot Lips in MASH, the TV show.
Srkdqltr
(6,297 posts)ChazII
(6,205 posts)and friends.
Coventina
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edited to add: The episode she starred in was actually the episode that was the first one filmed.
intheflow
(28,477 posts)Watched it when I was 10-ish. Hers was a very powerful performance. I didn't come to associate her with Hot Lips until I was in my 20's and becoming an antiwar activist - in part because of the tv show M*A*S*H. When I learned the show came from a movie (which came from a book), I watched the movie and was all, "Wow! It's Dr. Dr. Dehner!" And of course, she was brilliant as Hot Lips.
Nerdy correction to your post: This episode was the second pilot filmed, rather than the first episode. Spock wears a yellow shirt and makes jokes, and Sulu wears a blue shirt and is listed as being a physicist rather than a helmsman.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I havent watched it in forever, but damn.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)Loretta Swift, who is still with us, I think.
Editing to add, they were both brilliant in their own interpretations, IMO.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I kept thinking they werent the same person.
Thanks for that. Still sad.
I loved that movie for years, but boy, if you want to see sexual harassment, there it is. It bothered me after a certain age.
The TV show indulged in it quite a bit too, but seemed to change with the times.
Now Im sad all over again.
Straw Man
(6,625 posts)... was Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly.
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I wish I could find a clip.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)She was terrific in Slither, a rather under the radar (lol) movie now with a cult following.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)orleans
(34,060 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,816 posts)Straw Man
(6,625 posts)... the cultish Brewster McCloud as the title character's birdwoman mentor.
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)her performances were always a treat to watch.