Loretta Swit remembers well the night she won her first Emmy Award. On Sept. 7, 1980, the “MASH” star sat in her agent’s living room in Beverly Hills, watching the ceremony on TV when she hea…
On Sept. 7, 1980, the “MASH” star sat in her agent’s living room in Beverly Hills, watching the ceremony on TV when she heard her name called out and saw her picture flash on the screen. Swit was not in the audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium that year because her union, the Screen Actors Guild, was on strike.
reveals familiar patterns of rancor, division, distrust and fear of what the future held in a fast-changing business and technology environment. The actors’ work stoppage unfolded against the backdrop of a beleaguered late 1970s U.S. economy in the grip of inflation and rocked by oil price shocks, among other headwinds.
“I don’t give a —- what they do. They didn’t come to us,” IATSE president Walter Diehl told the IA crowd on day one, asIn the frenzied strike environment, there were moments of inspiration and moments of desperation. SAG wound up having to publicly apologize to Walter Matthau after accusing him of engaging in strike-breaking publicity activity on behalf of the 1980 thriller “Hopscotch.
Fellow “MASH” star Mike Farrell shares Swit’s sense of pride in having stepped up on behalf of his fellow thespians when the time came. “MASH” was an enormously successful, critical and commercial hit in its heyday. It was a top 5 hit in the 1979-80 season, tying with “Alice” for No. 4 behind “60 Minutes,” “Three’s Company” and “That’s Incredible.”
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