Polly Holliday, the Alabama-born actress who told folks to “Kiss my grits!” as the spirited waitress Flo on the CBS sitcom Alice and her own spinoff, has died. She was 88.

Holliday died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan, Dennis Aspland, her theatrical agent and friend, told The New York Times .

In 1990, Holliday received a Tony nomination for playing Big Mama in a revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Four years earlier, she starred opposite Jean Stapleton on Broadway in another revival of a classic, Arsenic and Old Lace .

Polly Holliday, the Alabama-born actress who told folks to “Kiss my grits!” as the spirited waitress Flo on the CBS sitcom Alice and her own spinoff, has died. She was 88.

Holliday died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan, Dennis Aspland, her theatrical a

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