Note: we are republishing this story which originally made the news in November 2024.
Actress Polly Holliday, best known for playing the gum-smacking waitress Flo who popularized the phrase “Kiss my grits!” on the long-running CBS sitcom “Alice,” died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 88. Holliday played the wicked Mrs. Deagle in the 1980’s featuring in Joe Dante’s “Gremlins.”
