Florence Jean Castleberry , better known to all as "Flo", is a fictional character in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , the subsequent television series, Alice , and that show's spinoff, Flo . In the movie, Flo was played by actress Diane Ladd (who would later play Flo's replacement, Isabelle Amanda Dupree on the TV series), and on the television series, she was played by Polly Holliday.
All about Flo
Florence Jean Castleberry was born in the small community of Cowtown, Texas, to Edsel Jarvis (Forrest Tucker) and Velma Castleberry (Sudie Bond). In many ways, Velma had been a raucous woman herself; and that was how Flo became who she was. She also had a younger sister named Fran (Lucy Lee Flippin). Fran and Flo were opposites in every way. Where Flo was outgoing and graceful, Fran was introverted and clumsy. Fran, who worked at the Department of Motor Vehicles, was forever engaged to a feed store worker named Wendell Tubbs. Whilst in Cowtown, she had worked as a waitress, and was considered one of the best.
Her best friend in Cowtown was a woman named Miriam Willoughby (Joyce Bulifant).
Flo dropped out of school at age 16 to get married. After three extremely unsuccessful marriages, (all three were in front of Justices of the Peace, she said that those three quickies didn't seem to take) Flo became a waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona, a roadside diner run by one Mel Sharples.
She was the old-hand waitress and took on a motherly role when Alice Hyatt came to Phoenix and began to work for Mel. Although she and Vera Louise Gorman-Novak got along, she didn't know what to make of her, as she was shy and clumsy, much like her sister Fran would become. She also flirted with many of the male customers, mostly to annoy Mel.
Flo and Mel had an adversarial relationship. They respected one another, but Flo wouldn't stand for Mel's sexism and greed. Whenever she was angry at him, which was often, she would often floor him with her famous catch phrase, "Mel, kiss mah grits!!!" Other expressions she used most often were, "When donkeys fly!!!" and "You bet your sweet patoot!"
Sometimes, Flo would and did strike back at Mel to prove her point that women were not what Mel thought they were (that is subservient to men and weak). A fine example of this was when Mel said that truck driving was men's work. Flo, angered by this chauvinistic statement, disproved it by driving a truck right through the front of the diner in retaliation.
Alice and Flo were best friends. She also liked Alice's son, Tommy Hyatt, whom she called "Tiger".
After several years at the diner, Flo left Phoenix, to take a hostessing job at the Thundering Herd restaurant in Houston, Texas, but stopped back in Cowtown and bought a roadhouse from her girlhood days, renaming it Flo's Yellow Rose.
On Flo her main adversary was the tightwad banker, Farley Waters, who held the mortgage on Flo's Yellow Rose. He absolutely hated her, and she hated him and his shenanigans as well. She got on somewhat well with the bartender, Earl Tucker, who called her senorita , although she could also be annoyed by him, because he didn't much like working for a woman, however he did make a go of it. The only others whom she did easily get on well with, was Les Kincaid, the learned piano player; Miriam, who worked at the Yellow Rose with her friend;
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