{"id":20681,"date":"2026-03-14T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20681"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:50:24","slug":"hot-lips-passed-away-at-age-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20681","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hot Lips\u2019 Passed Away At Age 87!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"277\">Loretta Swit, best known for her role as Major Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan on <em data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"175\">MASH<\/em>, has died at 87. She passed away at her New York City home on May 30, reportedly of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"688\">Born in Passaic, New Jersey, to Polish immigrant parents, Swit studied at Katharine Gibbs College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began her career in theater, later appearing in TV shows like <em data-start=\"486\" data-end=\"501\">Hawaii Five-O<\/em>, <em data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"513\">Gunsmoke<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"540\">Mission: Impossible<\/em>. Her breakthrough came in 1972 with <em data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"583\">MASH<\/em>, where she starred for 11 seasons, earning two Emmy Awards and appearing in both the pilot and finale.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"945\">Swit also appeared in TV movies (<em data-start=\"723\" data-end=\"737\">The Last Day<\/em>, <em data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"761\">A Christmas Calendar<\/em>) and stage productions (<em data-start=\"786\" data-end=\"808\">Same Time, Next Year<\/em>, <em data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"829\">Shirley Valentine<\/em>). A dedicated animal rights activist, she published <em data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"893\">SwitHeart<\/em> in 2017, showcasing her watercolors and advocacy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"1027\">She was married to actor Dennis Holahan from 1983 to 1995 and had no children.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7s_1xlWTpU?si=79wpXitDjbRth0Fb\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loretta Swit, best known for her role as Major Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan on MASH, has died at 87. She passed away at her New York City home on May 30, reportedly of natural causes. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, to Polish immigrant parents, Swit studied at Katharine Gibbs College and the American Academy of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20681\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Hot Lips\u2019 Passed Away At Age 87!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}