Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV ...

The award-winning actress starred in the hit sitcom "Alice," which aired from 1976 to 1985 ... eight years after she appeared in the PBS-TV version of the play.

Linda Lavin, who starred in the TV sitcom "Alice" as a paper-hat-wearing waitress ... theme song "There's a New Girl in Town," ran from 1976 to 1985. Lavin went on to win a Tony Award for best ...