She briefly did waitressing for Mel after Flo left but was replaced when Belle was hired. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Johnny Depp Hatter Tarrant Hightopp Mia Wasikowska Alice Kingsleigh Helena Bonham Carter Iracebeth Anne Hathaway Mirana Sacha Baron Cohen Time. In fact, such was her appeal that when she left Alice in 1980, the character moved right along with her to a new CBS series titled Flo. Over the course of four years, Holliday appeared as Florence Castleberry on 90 episodes of "Alice." She left in 1980, five years before the show came to an end, to portray the same character on her own show called "Flo." Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. That likely annoyed Linda. Her scene with Vic Taybac was especially good. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Allegedly Linda Lavin had trouble getting along with her co-stars, which is why Polly Holliday and Diane Ladd left the show. After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". 05/23 - Go On - The Complete Series From what I understand, it was a similar situation to what happened with Polly Holliday: Clashing egos. As a result, only one of the two episodes she filmed was aired. She says she likes New York, doesn't like Los Angeles, and anyway, "if you're going to work in this business, you need to be available in New York. Flo gets a wonderful job offer in Houston and says goodbye to Mel's Diner.Flo gets a wonderful job offer in Houston and says goodbye to Mel's Diner.Flo gets a wonderful job offer in Houston and says goodbye to Mel's Diner. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. We want to explore relationships that very different women can have with each other in the show." However, instead of playing the part of Flo, Diane was cast as Isabel, a former waitress who had supposedly worked at Mel's Diner in . //-->. Crazy Credits Well, Polly Hollidays exit from Alice was something related to her having a feud with one of the casts of Alice. 06/13 - Mayberry R.F.D. HELLO. This was deemed as too racy, though, for television; so they changed it to "Kiss my Grits!"