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Holliday<\/a> died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan, Dennis Aspland<\/a>, her theatrical agent and friend, told The New York Times.<\/p>\n In 1990, Holliday received a Tony nomination for playing Big Mama<\/a> in a revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Four years earlier, she starred opposite Jean Stapleton<\/a> on Broadway in another revival of a classic, Arsenic and Old Lace.<\/p>\n On the big screen, Holliday played Ruby Deagle, the wealthy and wicked widow who meets her swift end after a ride on a tampered stair-lift chair in Joe Dante<\/a>\u2019s Gremlins<\/a> (1984).<\/p>\n She also appeared in John G. Avildsen<\/a>\u2019s W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), Paul Mazursky<\/a>\u2018s Moon Over Parador<\/a> (1988), Chris Columbus\u2019 Mrs. Doubtfire<\/a> (1993), Mr. Wrong<\/a> (1996) \u2014 as Ellen…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Polly Holliday, the Alabama-born actress who told folks to \u201cKiss my grits!\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2012213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2012212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Polly-Holliday-Flo-the-Kiss-My-Grits-Waitress-on-\u2018Alice.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}