Linda Lavin must have a huge ego. She should have been happy to finally be famous after years of struggling and they even let her sing the theme song.

I know it was the character but her personality came out as well in the role, someone can play an type of role but still have a sweet aura radiate. Ms. Lavin never had that.

Got sick of Alice's constant whining about her life, raising her son alone blaw blaw blaw was cute for a while but it just got so damn old.
That was Lavin's character for goodness sake, not Lavin.
As far as Lavin being difficult; she was difficult enough so that not one but two fine character actresses left the show, "Alice". So, at one point, she was so difficult, she actually was a liability to the show's Producers because after each co-staring actress left the show because Lavin was so difficult, the show's ratings dropped.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!

I always found Linda Lavin annoying as hell, Diane Ladd has an ego the size of Texas by the way she harps about her career you'd think she was in the ranks of Vivien Leigh not really. Polly Holliday was fabulous and did steal the show, she was my favorite character. Got sick of Alice's constant whining about her life, raising her son alone blaw blaw blaw was cute for a while but it just got so damn old.

Celia was not a threat at the time to Linda Lavin.Polly Holliday and Diane Ladd were. In a documentary when speaking of Alice, Linda referred to Polly and Diane as "We had two actresses and then a wonderful actress named Celia joined the show". She referred to both polly and diane as two actresses and did'nt even mention them by name. The only reason why people watched that show was for Flo and Vera,Linda was not that great and she is actually a very boring actress.Its sad flo did'nt do well because polly holliday was really funny and a great actress.When Aol had in2tv I watched some episodes from Polly's show Flo and thought it was quite good it just needed more time to develope the other characters.

Reminds me of how they treated Suzanne Somers from Three's Company during her last episodes.
Yes,but Somers deserved to be treated that wayshe caused much trouble on 3's Co.

I don't find CELIA unattractive; she was just up in years.
Perhaps Celia needed the money enough to tolerate anything.

After Celia Weston came in as Jolene, I heard of no problems.
Doesn't anyone find that odd? I wonder if that's because Celia was unattractive and Linda had no competition or if she was threaten to be fired if she didn't make it work with Celia? I wish Linda wasn't such a bitch. She killed the show once Celia was added. All those episodes were corny and remakes from the first five years. Plus Jolene was a horrible character. I couldn't stand Alice after Diane left. And did everyone else notice that Diane's last episode featured her in a room talking on a phone to the gang saying she wasn't coming back? Reminds me of how they treated Suzanne Somers from Three's Company during her last episodes.

When diane Ladd (The original Flo) was on and she played Belle, I heaerd that she and Linda were clashing as well, which is why she didn't last; Wether that's true or not. After Ceilia Weston came in as Jolene, I heard of no problems.

I have heard all sorts of reports. But if that was the case, I am sure Linda feared another Flo situation with Ladd. After all, she was the original Flo in the film. She was Oscar-nominated for the role, and did win a Golden Globe for playing Belle on Alice (and in a year when Lavin didn't win).
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I read an interview with Diane Ladd who said when she was cast to play Belle, Linda was very nice and they got along great, but then once they started filming the show Linda was barely civil to her. Diane didn't know what caused the change.

Even as a kid, I thought she had a sexy quality about her; something in the way she plays her characters, plus she has a striking woman-next-door beauty to her.

Diane ladd could'nt stand working with Linda Lavin and asked to be let out of her contract
Linda Lavin wanted the show to revolve around her singing and dancing talents and after diane ladd left many episodes were about alice and her singing career.
The show sucked after Flo left,Diane still kept it going but once Celia joined the cast the show went downhill
Sad that Linda Lavin is so mean spirited and Joan Rivers knew her back in the day before both were famous and Joan Rivers said she was a total bitch very jealous person.

Then she was threatened by DIANE LADD when she joined,who departed one year later.

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was linda sexy sometimes on ''alice'' or do i need my meds again

I heard she was difficult to work with on Alice because Polly Holiday's character of Flo pretty much stole the show.
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