The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1977 Page: 26 of 28
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bun. In fact, her hair is dark
and graying, and her voice
is considerably lower than
the one she effects for the
TV role.
In fact, this particular in-
terview was set in the
publicity office at CBS’ New
York headquarters. When I
walked in and spotted the
woman in the chair, I
thought CBS had produced
the wrong person. But in-
deed it was Miss Holliday.
“The original script de-
scribed the character as a
brassy blond, and I went in
looking
recalled
But she read for the role,
and got it. Now she wears a
wig, and pumps up her
voice and has done so well
with the character the pro-
ducers are planning to
widen the role for next
season ^ ]
She’s the daughter of a
coal-miner-turned-truck
driver. As a young girl she
took piano lessons, and
hoped at one point for a
career as a concert pianist.
“I studied music
seriously,’’ she recalls. “I
felt it was what I should dor
I had some ability, but I
soon realized I was not of
concert calibre.’’
So, with her college
degree in music, she turned
to teaching. She taught for
several years, and also
spent her summers with a
repertory theater in
Sarasota, Fla. “When I
realized that I wasn’t going
to become a concert pianist,
I sort of gravitated to the
drama group in college,"
she explains.
She found it was a lot of
fun. The theater in Sarasota
was an Interesting ex-
perience, too. An Itth cen-
tury theater in Asolo, Italy
was dismantled,
transported to Sarasota and
reassembled
Miss Holliday was an
early performer at the
theater, and spent 10 sum-
mers with the group. She
also Journeyed to New York
winters for acting classes,
traveled around the country -
in stock company ap-
pearances.
By DAN LEWIS
The face is often familiar
but you can’t recall the
name, if indeed you ever
knew the name. Easily
recognized faces from
television commercials or
sometimes the supporting
players in a series are spot-
ted in the crowd, walking
along the street, or in a
restaurant.
That doesn't happen to
Polly Holliday. The only
ones who recognise her are
the countermen in the little
coffee shop near her walk-
up apartment in New York's
Greenwich Village. That's
because they KNOW who
she it.
And just who is Polly
Holliday? She's the one who
marvelously plays the
sassy, high-pitched waitress
with the upswept blond hair
in Alice, the CBS aeries that
goes into its second season
next fall.
What's startling is that it
takes a good, hard look to
In New York, she remeim-
bers, she used to earn her
keep by taking in typing
assignments.
After a while, she got an
agent who began finding
work for her in television
commercials. She did about
15 of them, and found it no
longer necessary to take in
typing.
She began appearing at
regional theaters, such as
the Front Street Theatre in
Memphis, and the Atlanta
Municipal Theatre. She
could always return to the
Florida theater where she
got her start, and now was
prospering on a year-round
schedule.
After 10 years of commut-
ing between New York and
Florida on her work-coach-
ing schedule. Miss Holliday
decided to settle in New
York permanently. Her luck
was running high. She got a
call unexpectedly to take-a
role In "Wedding Band" on
Broadway. The call, from
Alice Childress, came as she
was preparing to leave
Florida, so this time was
was coming back to New
York to a job. It lasted six
months (in 1974, ABC aired
the show as a prime-time
Broadway cast). Miss
Childress had remembered
Miss Holliday from a read-j
ing at the New Dramatists
group eight years earlier,
and out of the blue, called-
her for “Wedding Band."
It was at this point that
Dustin Hoffman’s influence
began to take a curious
effect on Miss Holliday’s
career. He was directing a
play on Broadway, “All
Over Town,"end Mtss Holli-
day auditioned, and won a ~r
part it.
She made an impression
on Hoffman. When he went
into “All the President’s
Men,” Hoffman recom-
mended her for the role of
the secretary to the Florida
district attorney. The cast-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1977, newspaper, May 22, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1144855/m1/26/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.