The Tony Award-winning stage actress Linda Lavin has away. She was a working-class icon who played a waitress in a paper hat on the television comedy “Alice.” She was eighty-seven.
According to an email forwarded to The Associated Press by her manager, Bill Veloric, Lavin passed away in Los Angeles on Sunday due to complications from newly diagnosed lung cancer.
In the middle of the 1970s, Lavin, a Broadway hit, made an attempt at Hollywood. Based on the Martin Scorsese-directed movie.
“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” in which Ellen Burstyn received an Oscar for her portrayal of the title waitress, she was selected to lead in a new CBS comedy.
Lavin, who played Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son who works in a roadside diner outside of Phoenix, became.
A role model for working mothers when the title was abbreviated to “Alice.” Lavin sang the theme song, “There’s a New Girl in Town,” throughout the 1976–1985 run of the program.
