{"id":8827,"date":"2025-09-29T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:07:53","slug":"sitcom-star-passed-away-at-age-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8827","title":{"rendered":"Sitcom Star Passed Away At Age 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"252\"><strong data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"250\">Polly Holliday, Alabama-born actress best known for her sassy catchphrase \u201cKiss my grits!\u201d on the CBS sitcom <em data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"209\">Alice<\/em> and its spinoff <em data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"231\">Flo<\/em>, has died at 88.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"353\">Her agent, Dennis Aspland, told <em data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"306\">The New York Times<\/em> she passed away Tuesday at her Manhattan home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"598\">Born July 2, 1937, in Jasper, Alabama, Holliday was known for her Southern charm and quick wit. She once recalled to <em data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"480\">People<\/em> how waitresses like Flo inspired her growing up. Her father was a truck driver, and she often joined him on the road.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"910\">After studying at Florida State University and a brief teaching career, Holliday turned to acting, starting in theater before landing her breakout role as Florence Jean \u201cFlo\u201d Castleberry on <em data-start=\"790\" data-end=\"797\">Alice<\/em> in 1976. Her bold character and iconic line made her a TV favorite, leading to her own spinoff, <em data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"899\">Flo<\/em> (1980\u201381).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"1135\">Beyond sitcoms, she enjoyed a successful career as a character actress, with roles in <em data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1008\">Gremlins<\/em> (1984), <em data-start=\"1017\" data-end=\"1033\">Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em> (1993), and <em data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1063\">The Parent Trap<\/em> (1998). She also appeared in <em data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1111\">Home Improvement<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1134\">The Golden Girls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1241\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Holliday won two Golden Globes for <em data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1179\">Alice<\/em> and received multiple Emmy nominations throughout her career.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0h6wMe5wtjU?si=qen5hKfT49h716Fj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Holliday, Alabama-born actress best known for her sassy catchphrase \u201cKiss my grits!\u201d on the CBS sitcom Alice and its spinoff Flo, has died at 88. Her agent, Dennis Aspland, told The New York Times she passed away Tuesday at her Manhattan home. Born July 2, 1937, in Jasper, Alabama, Holliday was known for her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8827\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sitcom Star Passed Away At Age 88&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}