"Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase Kiss my grits! into a national retort as the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress aboard the long-running CBS sitcom Alice, has died. She was 88. 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 Alice; Linda Lavin, who played the title character, died last year."
"Alice 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 Flo in 1980. It lasted a year. Holliday earned four Golden Globe nominations and won one in 1980 for Alice, as well as four Emmy Award nominations, three for Alice and one for Flo. As for the Kiss my grits! line, the Alabama-born Holliday was quick to distance herself from it, telling interviewers that the line was pure Hollywood"
Polly Holliday died at 88 at her New York home. She became widely known as Flo, the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress on the CBS sitcom Alice, and made Kiss my grits! a national retort. Alice ran from 1976 to 1985 and led to a 1980 Flo spin-off that lasted a year. Holliday earned four Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1980, and received four Emmy nominations. She performed on Broadway, including a Tony-nominated role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and appeared in television and film roles such as Golden Girls and All the President's Men. She distanced herself from the Kiss my grits! line as a Hollywood creation and described Flo as a sharp, humorous Southern woman who refuses to let life get her down.
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