The movie starred the Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt, a widow who moves West with her son to pursue a better life. Along the way, she becomes a waitress at a roadside diner in ...

In 1976, she was cast as Alice Hyatt in "Alice," based on Ellen Burstyn’s Oscar-winning "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" about a widowed single mom who has a young son and works at a roadside ...

Lavin got her big break starring as Alice Hyatt in 1976 on “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” The show was later renamed simply, “Alice” and followed the story of a widow who worked as a ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THERE'S A NEW GIRL IN TOWN") LAVIN: (As Alice Hyatt, singing) Early to rise, early to bed. GOMEZ SARMIENTO: Based off the Scorsese film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ...