M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul.The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.-Loretta SwitLoretta Jane SwitbornLoretta Jane SzwedNovember 4, 1937 – May 30, 2025Loretta Switperformed guest roles in various television series, includingHawaii Five-O(her first TV credit),Gunsmoke,Mission: Impossible, andMannix.Starting in 1972, Swit played the extremely capable head nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the