Polly Holliday is DEAD TO ME!

National Day of Mourning at the Datalounge!!!

I’m inconsolable!

She was 88!!!

Will Linda Lavin make a statement?

Linda has referred all comments to Susan Dey.

I can't breath

I actually knew her more from Mrs. Doubtfire, The Parent Trap, and The Golden Girls than Alice.

This one hits hard.

NOOOOOOO!!!!!

I've only been in heaven a few months, and she's coming to steal the spotlight from me. AGAIN.

The neon sign at Mel's Diner has buzzed for the last time and gone dark. No one left to take an order or cook up greasy eggs, bacon, and white toast.

I will miss her flapjacks.

If Vera were still around she would explode another box of straws.

Was she fighting an oil rig fire?

Damn, R13 you beat me to it. 2 minutes earlier that would have been my post!

Flo doesn’t live here anymore.

[quote] The neon sign at Mel's Diner has buzzed for the last time and gone dark. No one left to take an order or cook up greasy eggs, bacon, and white toast.

Jump Back! I'm still alive, Honey.

When donkeys FLY!!

[quote] Flo doesn’t live here anymore.

She is now in the great diner in the sky.

Gift article link from OP with preview pic.

NYT calls her "Sassy" while WAPO caller her "Brassy"

Who gets possession of her dentures?

DENTURES!??

She has a great cameo in All The President’s Men.

She was friends with Dustin Hoffman—his accent tutor for Tootsie.

I didn't see that coming.,

R15 Great minds and all…

[quote] NYT calls her "Sassy" while WAPO caller her "Brassy"

My grits made her gassy.

RIP Flo.

Sad that everyone in the original cast is now dead.

I mostly knew her as Rose's blind sister in GG. RIP.

There’s only one Flo and I’m still here!

[quote]Will Linda Lavin make a statement?

In scat. Let the trio warm up.

R28 the entire main cast are all dead now.

Vic Tayback (1930-1990)

Beth Howland (1941-2015)

Philip McKeon (1964-2019)

Linda Lavin (1937-2024)

Polly Holliday (1937-2025)

Noooooooooooooo!

R31 = Erna

[quote]Sad that everyone in the original cast is now dead.

Pardon us?

Given their similar horse smiles, Philip McKeon would have been better cast as Polly Holliday’s kid

She’s fighting a kitchen grease fire in Miami.

I honestly thought she died years ago. Who knew?

r36 That's not the only horse thing Phillip had.

What was the "unspecified illness" that resulted in Phillip McKeon's untimely death?

On the DL that means one thing…

^^Hoof-and-mouth disease, Rose.

It's a Polly Holliday for Marys!

Poly holiday

Cal Poly SLO

Poly Prep Brooklyn

Poly School - Pasadena

Aww, she was a hoot and a holler!

Will Linda Lavin sing at the funeral?

When donkeys fly!

Beep boop fie fo fooooo

I take it R18 and R48 are not the same poster.

I loved her in Gremlins!

At least I won't be in the same place as Linda Lavin.

Stick that in your Boppity Bop, bitch!

Was Polly's last breaths taken while sprawled out on a Pacific Coast Highway sidewalk like Our Linda?

This death is more tragic than Charlie Kirk's

Was she the only actor to get nominated for Lead and Supporting Actor awards in the same year for playing the same character?

Hopefully the wheelchair flew straight to heaven this time.

“Not THIS bitch.”

Mel’s kissing her grits.

Many Alice episodes have been posted on YouTube lately, and Polly’s episodes really hold up. She has to be one of the best actresses denied an Emmy to for bringing Flo to life and making her so much fun. Rest in peace Polly. You were really spectacular❤️.

R54 Considering his death wasn’t tragic at all, that’s a pretty low bar to clear.

[NYT calls her "Sassy" while WAPO caller her "Brassy"]

We would prefer being called "brassy" over "sassy" any day of the week!

Rest in Peace, Polly Holliday.

This is like when Farrah Fawcett died on the same day as Michael Jackson.

Never married. Of the lesbionic persuasion?

No but I was lesbionic

Did anyone notice she was never married?

I'm so sad! She was wonderful.

I saw her on Broadway in Cat with Chuck Durning at Kathleen Turner. She was very good as Big Mama.

Goodnight, funny lady.

Was Flo a Lot Lizard, giving BJs to truckers outside of the diner?

[quote] Chuck Durning at Kathleen Turner

Must’ve been quite the collision.

This one stings, folks.

We're losin' all the greats.

Rest well, Polly.

[quote]Cal Poly SLO

Ahem.

Johnny Hallyday Is still dead.

Polly was one of the most talented actresses ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay men were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles, and she theirs.

This is horrifying.

TERRIBLE

R72 whaaa?

R68 I see what you did there, but actually it was! They were both fierce!

This is what happens with ALL diva's, Datalounge newbie, R75.

Ohhh, that's why all the flags are at half staff today.

Well kiss my grits!

R64, you were not! You were in love with Steve Austin before your parachuting accident!

However, the Fembots sure did want to play with you, including Callahan.

And you proposed to Steve in the final TV movie, with a young Sandra Bullock.

What does diva possess?

Her other Flo was in William Inge's "Picnic," on Broadway in 1994. Betty Field played the part in the movie. RIP

[quote]Polly Holliday puts a revelatory spin on Flo, Madge's overly protective mother, by emphasizing that she, too, was once the town beauty but wasted every advantage that nature gave her. Scolding others, Ms. Holliday is really taking herself to task. - NYT

Actor Stuart Fratkin was recently interviewed on Patrick Labyorteaux's podcast and tells a brief Polly Holliday story. They were both guest stars on the same episode of Golden Girls (he played Man #2)

Starts at about 1 hour, 16 minutes and 32 seconds if it doesn't cue:

I’d misremembered that Miss Lavin had died actually something like 4 or 5 years ago, not within just the last year. Sad to realize the whole TV series gang of original principal castmembers are now gone.

Today's real SAD news

Her obituaries mention just about everything she did in her career EXCEPT joining the cast of the CBS sitcom 'Private Benjamin' to replace Eileen Brennan's character Captain Lewis when Brennan got hit by a car in the early 80s and couldn't continue on the show.

First Polly, then Charlie. These things come in threes. Who’s next, Gunilla Ulfsdóttir?

R87, Shelley HACK, Rose'!

She was a fun gal and great actress who had a good, long life. Celebrate her, you MARYS.

She was Lebanese, Blanche!

This makes me very sad. I've been very invested in making sure she was still alive after the last thread and Wikipedia had claimed she had passed. I changed her Wikipedia back at the time and kept track of it to make sure no one ever changed it without any sort of attribution.

I actually got her whole work IP and from Wikipedia because of edits I had made on a computer at work..

[quote]She was Lebanese, Blanche!

Gene Rayburn seduced her on the public airwaves.

Who’s number 3?

R54- For me the saddest death in the last year or so is Richard Simmons

Gene Rayburn kissing schtick was gross. Creep.

R83 He guest starred as Man #2?

Damn, I loved her, watched that show when I was about Tommy's age. One of the first to do a gay episode.

She was unforgettable and perfect as Ned Beatty's bitchy secretary in All the President's Men, deliberately mispronouncing Carl Bernstein's name.

R98 see r24

This makes me very sad:

[quote]I've been very invested in making sure she was still alive after the last thread and Wikipedia had claimed she had passed. I changed her Wikipedia back at the time and kept track of it to make sure no one ever changed it without any sort of attribution. I actually got her whole work IP and from Wikipedia because of edits I had made on a computer at work..

^ Why wasn't Tilda the Teller a bigger DL celebrity? 🤔

R95, Rayburn also pawed the female contestants, even a few times putting his hand in their hair saying that he “liked it.” And NO, it was not customary to do such things in the 1970s. I’m old enough to know.

Hilarious that there were three threads started about this.

Which happens, of course.

And they all said the same thing: KISS MAH GRITS!

R103 Let's not forget how Richard Dawson treated females on 'Family Feud' in the 70s. It was a different culture back then, especially on what was considered accepted. Now the females would consider these hosts 'creepy' and 'cringe'.

Dawson’s behavior on Famiky Feud, a show I avoided like the plague, got plenty of criticism back then R105.

Yet the criticism didn't yank him off the airwaves. He hosted the show from during its initial run from 1976 -85, then came back for the first season (1994-95) when CBS tried to revive it. 10 years of kissing and fondling women seems like it was acceptable.

No one tops this creep in that department.

Sorry Polly for the thread hijack. You deserve better.

R108 Was his name Jeffrey Epstein by any chance ?

I remember criticism as well, r103. When Ray Combs took over as host they made a point of having him not kiss the contestants.

R110. And it killed him!

I forgot I saw her in Cat. Her costume was so bad it ruined her performance. Absolutely one of the worst I've seen on Broadway.

Has the FBI found her killer yet?

r113, it was a transgender leftist illegal alien!