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The series of classic dramatics of the Korean War MASH POTATOES Does not have many characters from main women. The cast was largely made up of male actors, in particular Alan Alda Like Hawkeye, William Christopher As Father Francis Mulcahy, and Gary Burghoff as radar. It meant that MASH POTATOES star Loretta Swit , who played Major Margaret Houlihan for the 11 seasons, was in a class of her. And she took advantage of each opportunity to to defend oneself And her character, as she explained in a new Yahoo! Entertainment interview. She even spoke out against Margaret's nickname, "Hot Lips", finally convinced the writers of the series to stop using it almost completely in their scripts. Read the rest to discover what the 85-year-old man had to say about the occasional sexism she fought and the heritage of the beloved show, which ended 40 years ago.

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MASH POTATOES The series was created in 1972, two years after Robert Altman 's Film version, which was also a success. In the movie, Sally Kellerman Played Margaret. Most of the actors have been completely returned for the show; Burghoff is the only big actor who played the same role in both. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Swit was thrown into Margaret's game after playing a certain number of roles invited to television shows, including Hawaii: Five-O ,, Impossible mission , And Mannix . The Yahoo! The interview notes that Swit has always never seen the MASH POTATOES Film, even if she was good friends with her large Kellerman counterpart until her death last year.

In the cinematographic version, other officers of the mobile army surgical hospital begin to call Margaret "Hot Lips" after a hot meeting with the surgeon Frank Burns ( Robert Duvall ) ends up being broadcast on the PA system. (She also referred to this way in the 1968 novel which inspired her.) The nickname persisted through a large part of the television show, although Swit has always found that it was a reducing.

"She was much more than a piece of anatomy," Swit told Yahoo! "I kept telling writers:" She is more than that. ""

Like Yahoo! Notes, the nickname "Hot Lips" was used less frequently in the show after season 5, although it was re -moved from time to time.

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Margaret and Frank's ( Larry Linville In the series) Romance was a big conspiracy point at the start of the series seasons, but Swit did not buy that this would continue realistically much longer.

"I would tell the writers that we could not continue the relationship I had with Frank," said the actor. "They wrote Margaret as an intelligent and capable nurse and a large leader, but here she had an affair with a clumsy doctor who had the other doctors had no respect. It was difficult to continue to justify this relationship."

She explained that she had in fact launched Margaret when he returned from Tokyo to be married to another man to the writers at a conference call during the summer break.

"I said to them:" Can you imagine what you are going to have fun with Larry when I come back to town and I tell him that I am engaged? He will tear the doors of Mess's tent! "". "And that's exactly what they did. So we were all of the same spirit."

In the record final of the end of MASH POTATOES , Margaret decides to leave the army and go to work in a hospital in the United States even more eyebrows, she does it because her father advised her.

"I didn't think it was correct for my Margaret," Swit told Yahoo! "For me, she left for the next war. Margaret is a military, just like Potter [ Harry Morgan ]. I think her next movement was Vietnam. So I don't agree with that, but that's what they wanted to do. ""

She believes that one of the reasons why the end of Margaret is written in this way is that it can be planned to center it in a spin-off. It never happened, just Afternoon And TRAPPER John, M.D. , which had already been created when the original show was still on the waves.

Swit said that she had not been asked by the writers where she thought that her character could find herself after the show, but she was honored for having been responsible for composing Margaret's speech to her colleagues nurses.

"I was consumed to write this," said Swit. "And I always receive letters from women from around the world who have become nurses because of Margaret Houlihan. Having contributed to someone's life as it is remarkable."