Trivia

Close friends with Bud Cort since the filming of M*A*S*H (1970). In 1979, when Cort nearly died in a car accident and was rushed to the hospital, he called Kellerman and she came and stayed with him through the whole ordeal.

Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad wrote the band's more upbeat pop single, "Sally", for Kellerman, who at the time was his girlfriend. (April 3, 1976)

Dated Edd Byrnes, William Duffy, Mark Farner, Lawrence Hauben, Warren Hoge, Jon Peters, David Rayfiel and Charles Shyer. In her autobiography she notes that her relationship with Edd Byrnes wasn't consummated.

Performed stand up comedy at An Evening at the Improv (1981). Jim Carrey was the following act. (1982)

At just 18 years old was offered a contract with Verve Records by Norman Granz; unfortunately, stage fright daunted her from performing live and she never got beyond the stage of making demos, and the deal eventually lapsed. She was 35 when she released her first album, 'Roll With The Feelin' (1972), and she met Barry Manilow just before he became a major recording star and he produced four tracks with her but Manilow's label, Bell Records, wasn't interested in the material. The album eventually released with Decca Records. In 2009, Kellerman released her second album, 'Sally', it was produced by Grammy Award-winner Val Garay and was released with the Music Force Media Group.

After reading for "Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan", she realized the character was to be demeaned and objectified. Incensed, not only did Kellerman almost talk herself out of the role but confronted Robert Altman on his vision. As it turned out, Altman had preemptively rejected Kellerman as being "too attractive" for the part but found her attitude and passion appropriate for the character. Ironically, the dreaded scenes in the movie are the most memorable, particularly the famous prank scene, in which a shower tent is lifted to expose the character in the nude, which evoked a large number of imitations in movie history.

Reportedly turned down the role of Dianne Cluny in The Boston Strangler (1968) but reconsidered after she received a phone call from acquaintance Shirlee Fonda, on behalf of Henry Fonda; he extended his admiration for Kellerman's work and he insisted she join the film.

The late Jennifer Jones was her mentor and close confidante. They attended group therapy sessions together. Jonathan D. Krane also attended the sessions and met Kellerman in 1978 and they started dating in December of that year. On May 11, 1980, the two married in a private ceremony at Jones' Malibu home. The couple separated for a few months in 1994, reconciled, then separated again in 1997 over Krane's affair with Nastassja Kinski. They ultimately got back together in 1999 and remained a couple until Krane died unexpectedly from a heart attack in August 2016.

Took hiatus from acting to focus on her career as singer. (1971)

Daughter Hanna Krane died from heroin and methamphetamine use on October 22, 2016 at age 27.

Part of the original cast in the short-lived Broadway musical production of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). (1966)

Adoptive mother of newborn twins, Jack Donald and Hanna Vaughan Krane (b. June 24, 1989) with second husband Jonathan D. Krane.

(New York City, 1973) After completing Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), declined an offer for a ten-page spread in Vogue by former editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella. Kellerman resided at the Plaza Hotel in New York City during the filming.

Focusing on singing and family, turned down roles in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Nashville (1975) and A Wedding (1978).

Among Faye Dunaway, Marlon Brando, Dyan Cannon, and others, Playboy magazine awarded her 'Sex Star' of 1973.

Close friend of John Travolta and Kelly Preston.

Volunteered at a memory care unit as means to dig deeper into her role as Dorothy, a woman with Alzheimer's disease in a retirement home, in Night Club (2011). Her performance earned an Accolade Competition Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Played Gloria, a tough inmate who bosses around the other prisoners, in Tom Eyen's R-rated spoof of 1940s women's prison films 'Women Behind Bars'. Reportedly, her role in Verna: USO Girl (1978) led her to join the production, director Ron Link saw her in the PBS project and when Adrienne Barbeau decided to leave the play at the Roxy Theater, he asked Kellerman to replace her. (1983)

(February 7, 1981) Hosted Saturday Night Live (1975), and appeared in four sketches: "Monologue", "the Audition", "Was I Ever Red" and "Lean Acres". She closed the show with performing Donna Summer's "Starting Over Again".

(1950s) Worked as an elevator operator and waitress in a coffee shop on Sunset Strip to pay for her tuition at the Actors Studio West.

During the filming of Prêt-à-Porter (1994) director Robert Altman flew Kellerman and co-star Lauren Bacall from Paris to New York City to present at his tribute at Lincoln Center.

Miss Kellerman holds the distinction of being the most senior starring American actress in a major film to do a nude scene, which she did in The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (2005) at 68 years of age.

Sold her 1950s cottage in Hollywood Hills West for $1.45 million. (2017)

Reluctant to take on another road movie so soon after Slither (1973), almost turned down Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), but continued with the project after finding out her character was to sing in the film.

Wanted to play Erica in An Unmarried Woman (1978) but Jill Clayburgh got the part.

While in high school she performed with Yvette Mimieux in the all-male quartet The Four Preps.

Luana Anders, Anjanette Comer, Lisabeth Hush and Joanne Linville were bridesmaids at her first wedding ceremony in 1970, when she married Rick Edelstein. The couple divorced in 1972. Kellerman has 4 ex-stepdaughters from the marriage.

During the 43rd Academy Awards ceremony, performed with Burt Lancaster, Ricardo Montalban and Petula Clark 1970 Oscar-nominated song, "Thank You Very Much," from Scrooge (1970). Quincy Jones was the musical director. This was also the year that Kellerman was nominated an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for M*A*S*H (1970). Donfeld designed her champagne cut velvet evening dress. (1971)

Member of Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Appeared with Regina Taylor and Teri Hatcher in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues (2002). (2000)

Upon her death, she was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.

Joined actresses Kathleen Turner and Beverly Peele in a Planned Parenthood press conference supporting a proposed law introduced to the U.S. Congress. (June 10, 1999)

(April 19 to May 21, 1995) Played the titular role in Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Auntie Mame (1958). Around this time, Kellerman played in back-to-back plays in Boston and Edmonton. In Boston, she played Martha in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and starred as Mary Jane Dankworth in a two-month, two character production of The Lay of the Land (1997) with Michael Hogan in Edmonton. The latter was eventually made into a film (same title) in which Kellerman repeated the role (opposite Ed Begley Jr.).

Alumna of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

(2004 - 2005) Played host Madame ZinZanni in 'Teatro ZinZanni', and Delores Montoya in Blank Theatre Company's revival of 'The Wild Party'.

(October 3 to November 15, 1980) Played Julia Seton in Ahmanson Theatre's 'Holiday' (opposite Kevin Kline, Maurice Evans and Marisa Berenson).

Recipient of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award at Cinema Paradiso-Fort Lauderdale. (April 2013)

Turned down the role of Joanne in Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982).

On Thursday, December 11, 1958, she testified at the coroner's inquest into the death of actor Tom Pittman, who had driven his Porsche Spyder over a cliff into Benedict Canyon while returning from a party the previous Halloween. At the time, Kellerman had been in a relationship with Pittman, although it is unclear as to whether she was at the same Halloween party. In any case, Pittman was alone in the car when he crashed. His body was not found until the following November 19.