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 ...

It follows working mom and aspiring singer Alice Hyatt as she raises her son and works at a diner. Lavin had been performing since she was 5 years old, according to IMDb. In the early 1960s ...

The title was shortened to “Alice” and Lavin become a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working-class icon as a paper hat-wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on ...

(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 ...

The title was shortened to "Alice," and Lavin became a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix. The show ...

The title was shortened to Alice and Lavin become a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix. The show ...

Linda Lavin, the Tony-winning actress who spent nine seasons serving up meals with a side order of sass as the waitress Alice Hyatt on the hit CBS sitcom Alice, died Sunday. She was 87.

The title was shortened to “Alice” and Lavin become a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix.