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- Eileen Saki was the final and longest-running actress to play Rosie, proprietor of Rosie's Bar in the television series M*A*S*H. She also had a small but memorable role in the season 5 premiere episode as the head Madam of a coquettish group of prostitutes.
The switching of actresses in the role of Rosie mimics the actual handing over of the real-life Rosie's Bar during the Korean War from mother to daughter. Alan Alda became aware of this when he received a letter from the real Rosie Jr. about the incident in the early 1980s, a copy of which is available in the book The Last Days of M*A*S*H by Alan and Arlene Alda.
Saki died in Los Angeles, California on May 1, 2023, at the age of 79- IMDb Mini Biography By: Emil Hagberg
- SpouseBob Borgen(? - May 1, 2023) (her death)
- She was the final and longest-running actress to play Rosie, proprietor of Rosie's Bar in the television series M*A*S*H, and she also had a small but memorable role in the season 5 premiere episode as the head Madam of a coquettish group of prostitutes.
- The switching of actresses in the role of Rosie mimics the actual handing over of the real-life Rosie's Bar during the Korean War from mother to daughter. Alan Alda became aware of this when he received a letter from the real Rosie Jr. about the incident in the early 1980s, a copy of which is available in the book The Last Days of M*A*S*H by Alan and Arlene Alda.
- Saki read the Hollywood trades to learn the names of casting directors around town and snuck on the Fox lot, where she met M*A*S*H writer, producer and director Burt Metcalfe, who hired her to play the Korean madam. A year later, she was cast as Rosie.
- Her dad, who had worked in the theater in Japan and was a gardener in the U.S., put aside money for her to take singing and dancing lessons, she noted.
- Saki, who was born and raised in Japan, said she knew she would be a performer by the time she was 4.
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