“Kiss my grits” was first uttered on TV by Alabama native Polly Holliday when she portrayed the sassy waitress Florence Jean “Flo” Castleberry on the show, “Alice.” But the phrase ...

Born in 1932, in Meridian, Mississippi, Diane Ladd played the character Belle, who was the waitress that replaced Flo (when Polly Holliday left the series). Before the Alice cast, Ladd made ...

Getchell spun his story into a sitcom that centers on Linda ... to chronicle the everyday challenges faced by Alice and her co-workers, sassy Flo (Polly Holliday) and wide-eyed Vera (Beth Howland ...

The series is a spin-off for Polly Holliday who portrayed the sassy and street-smart waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the sitcom Alice. Flo was cancelled at the end of its second season.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has ... Holliday as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback as ...

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom "Alice," has died ... as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback as the ...

NEW YORK — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom Alice ... as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback as the ...

Millions of TV viewers knew Ms. Lavin as the star of “Alice,” which ... included Polly Holliday as Flo, a tart-tongued waitress who by some accounts stole the show with her signature line ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice ... as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback ...