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To avoid severe typecasting, Polly veered away from the television limelight and returned to her first love, the theatre. From time to time, Polly has taken on feisty roles in both comic and dramatic films, such as the old crank who meets a freakish end in the box-office critter hit Gremlins , and on TV wherein she briefly replaced Eileen Brennan as Captain Amanda Allen in the series Private Benjamin after Ms.

Brennan's near-fatal car accident in Though Polly never recaptured the brash success of her Alice years, she has continued at a healthy pace primarily in guest spots. Broaching the millennium she continued sporadically with featured parts in such films as Mrs. Doubtfire , Mr. Sign In. Edit Polly Holliday. Showing all 13 items.

Holliday's success as the brassy, cynical, gregarious Flo on Alice for which role she wore a red wig reportedly did not endear her to the titular star of the show, Linda Lavin. The friction between the two actresses was such that Holliday left for her own short-lived spin-off series, Flo Alice remained on the air for several more seasons but Holliday never returned, even to make a guest appearance. Holliday's successor, actress Diane Ladd who had played "Flo" in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , on which the television series was based but adopted the role of "Belle Dupree" for the series , also did not get along with Lavin, and left.

Holliday with the trademark wig. However, she also admits the "Flo" phenomenon has even influenced her own family to a small degree. Polly's mother, who has since passed away, was once on a seniors bus tour to the Grand Canyon, and everywhere she went, everyone pointed to her said, "she's Flo's mother! Here, take my pencil. After leaving Alice, and after a brief period playing Flo in a spin-off series of the same name, Polly went on to perform in numerous stage productions, films and television roles.

Doubtfire, Mr. Wrong, The Client, and regular appearances on Home Improvement. In addition to performing, Polly also finds herself making regular rounds to colleges and universities, speaking at acting seminars and instructing graduate students.

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