M*A*S*H TV CAST: ALAN ALDA & LORETTA SWIT. Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Jane - Peace! Alan Alda" and "To Jane - Peace! Loretta Swit". B/w, 9¾x8 overall, image 7¼x6¼ (one surface). Alan Alda starred as Captain Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce and Loretta Swit played Major Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan in the TV series M*A*S*H which ran on CBS from 1972-1983. It was set at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital Unit in wartime Korea. They are shown together receiving their Emmy's for their work in this series. In 1978, ALAN ALDA took advantage of an unusually lengthy production break in M*A*S*H to star in three films: California Suite, Same Time, Next Year, and The Seduction of Joe Tynan. Alda has occasionally delighted in going against the grain of his carefully cultivated image with nasty, spiteful characterizations, most notably in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and as death row inmate Caryl Chessman in the 1977 TV movie Kill Me if You Can. Also during the series' occasional production layoffs, LORETTA SWIT starred in a number of made-for-TV movies, including the pilot episode of Cagney and Lacey (1981). Since M*A*S*H's demise, Swit has been busier with her various political and social causes than with her acting career. Often as not, she chose the stage over TV or films during these years; in 1990, she won the Sarah Siddons award for her performance in the Chicago production of Shirley Valentine. "Alda" lightly smudged. Fine condition.