{"id":47003,"date":"2025-09-11T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/polly-holliday-who-played-flo-on-hit-sitcom-alice-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:42:20","slug":"polly-holliday-who-played-flo-on-hit-sitcom-alice-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/polly-holliday-who-played-flo-on-hit-sitcom-alice-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Polly Holliday, who played Flo on hit sitcom &#8220;Alice,&#8221; dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase &#8220;Kiss my grits!&#8221; into a national retort as the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress aboard the long-running CBS sitcom &#8220;Alice,&#8221; has died. She was 88. <\/p>\n<p>Holliday died Tuesday at her home in New York, said her theatrical agent, Dennis Aspland. She was the last surviving member of the principal cast of &#8220;Alice;&#8221; Linda <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/linda-lavin-star-of-sitcom-alice-and-tony-award-winner-dies-at-87\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Lavin, who played the title character, died last year<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/11\/e9f06d02-1f36-4781-a42e-b4167b54bdc1\/thumbnail\/620x419\/7f11e9601f23a61333bf4aefc487e074\/polly-holliday-in-2003.png#\" alt=\"polly-holliday-in-2003.png \" height=\"419\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/11\/e9f06d02-1f36-4781-a42e-b4167b54bdc1\/thumbnail\/620x419\/7f11e9601f23a61333bf4aefc487e074\/polly-holliday-in-2003.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Polly Holiday arriving at a play opening in November 2003 in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Peter Kramer \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Alice&#8221; ran from 1976 to 1985, but Holliday had turned into such a star that the network gave her her own short-lived spin-off called &#8220;Flo&#8221; in 1980. It lasted a year. <\/p>\n<p>Holliday earned four Golden Globe nominations and won one in 1980 for &#8220;Alice,&#8221; as well as four Emmy Award nominations, three for &#8220;Alice&#8221; and one for &#8220;Flo.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8220;Kiss my grits!&#8221; line, the Alabama-born Holliday was quick to distance herself from it, telling interviewers that the line was &#8220;pure Hollywood&#8221; and not a regional saying. But she identified with Flo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/11\/188f8d52-a1db-46ff-b7aa-4b67bc1b2323\/thumbnail\/620x471\/b59b27c4d584ed858d7123d633d14fda\/gettyimages-541755566.jpg#\" alt=\"Alice \" height=\"471\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/11\/188f8d52-a1db-46ff-b7aa-4b67bc1b2323\/thumbnail\/620x471\/b59b27c4d584ed858d7123d633d14fda\/gettyimages-541755566.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/11\/188f8d52-a1db-46ff-b7aa-4b67bc1b2323\/thumbnail\/1240x942\/503e13d25ac4173f9bd1ea334f3d9ba5\/gettyimages-541755566.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">&#8220;Alice&#8221; Cast members Polly Holliday, left, as Flo, Linda Lavin, center, as Alice, and Beth Howland, as Vera Louise Gorman, in January 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;She was a Southern woman you see in a lot of places,&#8221; she told The Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 2003. &#8220;Not well educated, but very sharp, with a sense of humor and a resolve not to let life get her down.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Holliday&#8217;s career included stints on Broadway &#8211; including a Tony nod opposite Kathleen Turner in a 1990 revival of &#8220;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof&#8221; &#8211; and lots of TV, including playing the blind sister to Betty White&#8217;s character in &#8220;Golden Girls.&#8221; On the big screen, her credits included John Grisham 1995 legal thriller series &#8220;The Client&#8221; and portraying a protective secretary in &#8220;All the President&#8217;s Men.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Her Broadway credits include &#8220;All Over Town&#8221; in 1974 directed by Dustin Hoffman, &#8220;Arsenic and Old Lace&#8221; in 1986 with Jean Stapleton and Abe Vigoda, and a revival of &#8220;Picnic&#8221; with Kyle Chandler in 1994.  <\/p>\n<p>Some of her more memorable credits include the wicked Mrs. Deagle in &#8220;Gremlins,&#8221; Tim Allen&#8217;s sassy mother-in-law on &#8220;Home Improvement&#8221; and off-Broadway in &#8220;A Quarrel of Sparrows,&#8221; in which The New York Times said she radiated &#8220;a refreshingly touching air of willed, cheerful imperturbability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/polly-holliday-dies-flo-on-alice-88\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase &#8220;Kiss my grits!&#8221; into a national retort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1541],"class_list":["post-47003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-obituary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Polly Holliday, who played Flo on hit sitcom &quot;Alice,&quot; dies at 88 - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Polly Holliday, the last surviving member of the principal cast of the long-running sitcom &amp;quot;Alice,&amp;quot; has did at 88. 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