![]() I remember being in Ohio, in a Ramada Inn by the freeway, suddenly thinking to myself, By going out on the road like this, I didn't become a better singer… I just got out of show business. I bombed in New Orleans, I bombed several places. Then I cut down to just a music director and a sound and light man… It was a humbling experience. I toured with 11 musicians until my money ran out. They called me the Marlene Dietrich of rock. ![]() I was the big main attraction: Spangles, feathers and beads. In 1980 she told Roger Ebert: Four years ago, when I could have been making movies, I made a decision to completely drop my movie career and go on the road as a singer. Unfortunately, not only did she get out of her comfort zone, but she discovered that it’s hard to build a career from the ground up, even when you’ve been in one of the most popular movies of the ‘70s. In the 1970s, Kellerman took a break from her successful acting career in order to try to hit it big in the music industry. Stars would line up to work for nothing for Bob Altman. Bob was as stubborn and arrogant as I was at the time, but the sad thing is that I cheated myself out of working with someone I loved so much, someone who made acting both fun and easy and who trusted his actors. ‘Sally, do you want to be in my picture after next?’ he asked. She said: I had just finished filming Last of the Red Hot Lovers when Bob called me one day at home. It's so great to do what you love and have it be fun and people enjoy it.Įven though she clearly loved working with Altman (she appeared in Brewster McCloud the same year and Prêt-à-Porter in 1994), Kellerman says that she turned down a role in Nashville, a film that would have helped her show off her singing skills, something she’s got to be kicking herself about. Kellerman later said of the director: He was a rebel. As Hot Lips she earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and she found a lifelong cinematic partner in director Robert Altman. She finally had a chance to flex of her comedy muscles, something that she’d been trying to do for a decade in TV. Just as Kellerman was pushing the small screen away she took on one of the defining roles of her career, that of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in Robert Altman’s MASH (1970). ‘I guess SOMEBODY'S sitting on our bench.’ For three months after that, I ate my lunch in the bathroom. They talked about me real loud to one another. There was one bench where, at lunchtime, all the girls sat who were going to be models. I didn't smoke grass until I was 27… Hollywood High was bizarre. I was so dumb I had to be taught to swear. That meant I smoked, knew how to swear, and sometimes I drank a beer. Serwis Deadline poinformowa, e zmara w czwartek, 25 lutego w domu opieki w Woodland Hills w stanie Kalifornia w wieku 84 lat. It was the era of bobby socks and ponytails, high heels and makeup. In 1980 she told Roger Ebert: I went to Hollywood High School. While she was acting in high school plays like Meet Me in St. The family moved again during her sophomore year of high school, which sent her to Hollywood High School. She was born in Long Beach, California, but she and her family moved to San Fernando Valley when she was in the fifth grade. Even though she’s blossomed into a well loved celebrity, Kellerman grew up feeling like an outsider.
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