1. Sally Clare Kellerman was an American actress whose acting career spanned 60 years.
54 Facts About Sally Kellerman
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Sally Kellerman voiced Miss Finch in Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, which went on to become one of her most significant voice roles.
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At age 18, Sally Kellerman signed a recording contract with Verve Records, but her first album was not recorded until 1972.
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Sally Kellerman contributed songs to the soundtracks for Brewster McCloud, Lost Horizon, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, and Boris and Natasha: The Movie.
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Sally Kellerman did commercial voiceover work for Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing, Mercedes-Benz, and Revlon.
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Sally Kellerman was born in Long Beach, California, on June 2,1937 to Edith Baine, a piano teacher from Portland, Arkansas, and John Helm "Jack" Sally Kellerman, a Shell Oil executive from St Louis, Missouri.
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When Sally Kellerman was in fifth grade, the family moved from Long Beach to the San Fernando Valley.
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Sally Kellerman spent her early life in then-rural Granada Hills in a largely unpopulated area surrounded by orange and eucalyptus groves.
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Sally Kellerman attended Los Angeles City College, and enrolled in Jeff Corey's acting class.
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Towards the end of the 1950s, Sally Kellerman joined the newly opened Actors Studio West and debuted before the camera in the film, Reform School Girl.
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Sally Kellerman was in an episode of the western Cheyenne, as well as a role as a waitress in the John Forsythe sitcom Bachelor Father.
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Sally Kellerman debuted in Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, followed by parts in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Leslie Stevens's The Marriage-Go-Round and Michael Shurtleff's Call Me by My Rightful Name.
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Sally Kellerman appeared in two episodes of The Outer Limits, first in 1963 in the episode "The Human Factor", and then in 1964 in the episode "The Bellero Shield" in which she played Judith Bellero, the manipulative and ruthless wife of Richard Bellero.
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Sally Kellerman played leading lady to David Niven in his television series The Rogues in 1965 for an episode titled "God Bless You, G Carter Huntington" which revolved around her striking beauty to a large degree, and appeared in a 1965 Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode titled "Thou Still Unravished Bride".
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Three months after that, Sally Kellerman played Mag Wildwood in the original Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by David Merrick, which closed after four preview performances.
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Sally Kellerman played Eleanor in the Hawaii Five-O episode "The Big Kahuna".
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Sally Kellerman received her breakthrough role in 1970.
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Sally Kellerman's performance received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, winning the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Laurel for Best Comedy Performance, and a second-place National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Sally Kellerman again collaborated with Altman in Brewster McCloud as Louise, guardian angel to Bud Cort, and recorded "Rock-a-Bye Baby" for the film's soundtrack.
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In Manhattan after the film, Sally Kellerman declined an offer for a ten-page spread in Vogue from the then editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella.
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In October 1975, Sally Kellerman sang at Reno Sweeney, and performed two shows nightly at the Rainbow Grill from November 25 to December 14.
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Sally Kellerman played Kay King, the pretentious and kooky mother of a lovelorn daughter, in George Roy Hill's A Little Romance.
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Sally Kellerman began the decade as Mary, a divorced middle-aged suburban mother struggling to raise her rebellious daughter in Adrian Lyne's Foxes ; Martha, a six-times-married eccentric, in Bill Persky's Serial, and the silly-but-sophisticated Mrs Liggett in Jack Smight's Loving Couples.
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From October 3 to November 15,1980, Sally Kellerman starred as Julia Seton in an Ahmanson Theatre production of Philip Barry's Holiday with Kevin Kline, Maurice Evans, and Marisa Berenson.
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On February 7,1981, Sally Kellerman hosted Saturday Night Live, appearing in four sketches and closing the show with Donna Summer's "Starting Over Again".
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Sally Kellerman played Gloria, a tough inmate who controls the other prisoners.
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Late in the decade, Sally Kellerman planned to release her second album, which would have included "It's Good to Be Bad, It's Bad to Be Good" from 1992's Boris and Natasha: The Movie ; however, the album never was released.
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From April 18 to May 21,1995, Sally Kellerman played the title role in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre production of Mame.
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Around this time, Sally Kellerman appeared in back-to-back plays in Boston and Edmonton.
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That year Sally Kellerman planned to release her second album, Something Kool, featuring songs from the 1950s.
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In 1997, Sally Kellerman was scheduled to play the title role in Mrs Scrooge: A Slightly Different Christmas Carol, a made-for-TV film version of Charles Dickens' novella.
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Sally Kellerman appeared in the 1998 Columbo episode "Ashes to Ashes".
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On June 10,1999, Sally Kellerman joined actresses Kathleen Turner and Beverly Peele in a Planned Parenthood press conference supporting a proposed law introduced to the US Congress.
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At the beginning of the century, Sally Kellerman appeared in Canon Theatre's production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues with Teri Hatcher and Regina Taylor.
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In March 2002, Sally Kellerman performed in Los Angeles' What a Pair, a benefit for breast cancer research, joining singer-songwriter Julia Fordham for "Why Can't I".
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Sally Kellerman returned to the stage for a second What a Pair concert, joining actress Lauren Frost for "I'm Past My Prime".
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Sally Kellerman sang Cole Porter's "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" with actress, singer and songwriter Kathleen "Bird" York at her third What a Pair concert.
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In September 2008, Sally Kellerman recorded a duet with Ray Brown Jr.
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In 2009, Kellerman released a jazz and blues album, Sally, her first since Roll with the Feelin.
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Sally Kellerman featured interpretations of songs by Linda Ronstadt, Kim Carnes, Aerosmith, Nina Simone, the Motels, Neil Diamond, Jackson Browne, Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, Jennifer Warnes, and James Taylor.
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Sally Kellerman starred with Ernest Borgnine and Mickey Rooney in Night Club.
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On July 7,2012, Sally Kellerman appeared with Tito Ortiz, Cary Elwes, and Drake Bell in an episode of the Biography Channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories.
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Sally Kellerman made promotional book-signing appearances in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Manhattan, and Jersey City.
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Sally Kellerman later received a Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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In September 2013 filmmaker Ellen Houlihan released a short film Joan's Day Out, in which Sally Kellerman played a grandmother who escapes from her assisted-living facility to bail her teenage granddaughter out of prison.
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Sally Kellerman made a return appearance in the second season of Maron in the episode "Mom Situation", and as part of an Epix Network documentary celebrating the life of Robert Altman on August 6,2014.
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In October 2014, TVLine announced that Sally Kellerman had been cast in the mysterious role of Constance Bingham on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy as Best Actress in a Guest Role.
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In 1961, Sally Kellerman underwent a botched home abortion, and went to a hospital for the first time.
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On March 6,1972, Sally Kellerman divorced Edelstein, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Sally Kellerman adopted Claire on January 30,1976, and on April 10, Ian Graham died in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Sally Kellerman wrote the song "Sally", from the 1976 album Born to Die, as an ode to their relationship.
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Sally Kellerman dated screenwriters David Rayfiel and Charles Shyer, as well as journalist Warren Hoge, producer Jon Peters, and actor Edd Byrnes.
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On May 11,1980, Kellerman married producer Jonathan D Krane in a private ceremony at Jennifer Jones's Malibu home.
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Sally Kellerman died from heart failure at a care facility in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on February 24,2022, at the age of 84.