By Mike Barnes Senior Editor 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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice ... chef of Mel’s Diner.

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 ... and head chef of Mel's Diner.

In one of Linda Lavin’s favorite episodes of the television sitcom Alice, her title character, an aspiring singer working as a waitress, agrees to star in a commercial for Mel’s Diner.

Linda Lavin ... "Alice," which ran for nine seasons from 1976-85 and was based on the Martin Scorsese film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” On the show, she worked as a waitress at Mel's ...

Actress Linda Lavin, best known as the protagonist in the hit 1970s sitcom “Alice” as well as numerous ... during final taping of television show Mels Diner, January 15, 1985 in Los Angeles ...

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 ... and head chef of Mel’s Diner.

Linda Lavin ... starred Lavin as Alice Hyatt, a widow with a young son (played by Philip McKeon) who starts life again in Arizona, where she works at Mel’s Diner (whose eponymous owner was ...