Obituary: Actress Linda Lavin, best remembered for her performance in the title role of the TV sitcom Alice, has died at the age of 87, it was just announced.
She also enjoyed a long stage career.
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A native of Maine, Lavin had recurred as feisty Det. Janice Wentworth on the first two seasons of ABC’s Barney Miller when she was hired in 1976 to topline Alice, created by Robert Getchell. The show was based on the Warner Bros. movie Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), written by Getchell, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Ellen Burstyn in an Oscar-winning performance.
The plucky Alice is a recently widowed mom with a young son (Philip McKeon on the series) who struggles to make ends meet as she holds down a job at Mel’s Diner, a greasy spoon on the outskirts of Phoenix.
She died today after recently being diagnosed with lung cancer.
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