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Feb 24, 2022, 10 tweets

#RIP Sally Kellerman
A lovely portrait by Alfred Eisenstaedt, for a Life magazine feature October 20, 1970.

#RIP Sally Kellerman
Another shot for Life by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1970. I'm listening to Kellerman's 1972 album Roll With The Feelin'

#RIP Sally Kellerman
Here she is in Baumholder, West Germany, for the made-for-TV movie 'Verna: USO Girl', shown on PBS December 15, 1976.
📷 Brownie Harris

#RIP Sally Kellerman
She played a nightclub singer in Richard Martini's 1989 film Limit Up
📷 Lorey Sebastian

#RIP Sally Kellerman
With Sissy Spacek, & back in combat fatigues, in
Verna: USO Girl, 1976
📷 Brownie Harris

#RIP Sally Kellerman
She played Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in Star Trek: The Original Series. Here with Gary Lockwood as Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell, in "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Season 1, Episode 3, which aired September 22, 1966

#RIP Sally Kellerman
With Jack Nicholson & Michelle Phillips at the Academy Awards, April 1972. She was nominated for her role in M*A*S*H, but lost out to Helen Hayes for Airport. Jack, nominated for Five Easy Pieces, lost out to George C. Scott for Patton.
📷 Max Miller

More Alfred Eisenstaedt shots of Sally Kellerman, who died today. #RIP
For Life magazine, October 20, 1970

Here's the first page of the Life magazine story about Sally Kellerman. "Everybody calls me Hot Lips. Nobody even knows my name," she's quoted in the story. And then they give it the headline "New-found fame for 'Hot Lips'".
My mistake: this was in February 5, 1971 issue
#RIP

#RIP Sally Kellerman
With Mary Tyler Moore in the stage production Breakfast at Tiffany's
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1966
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