Alice Hyatt

Alice Hyatt (born Alice Graham in the movie; Alice Spivak in the television series) is a fictional character in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and in the subsequent television series Alice. In the movie, she was played by Ellen Burstyn, who won an Academy Award for the role. In the television series, Alice was played by actress and singer Linda Lavin. Alice was born and raised in New Jersey. While still young, she marries truck driver Donald Hyatt (Billy Green Bush), whom she meets at a club she was singing at in Newark, New Jersey. They have a son, Tommy (Alfred Lutter). Some time later, Don dies in a trucking accident. Now a widow with a 12-year-old son to care for, she sets off for Monterey, California but her car broke down outside Phoenix, Arizona. She rents an apartment at the Phoenix Palms Apartments, and finds a job as a singer at a nightclub, where she meets a charming younger man named Ben (Harvey Keitel). They date until Alice finds out that Ben is married; when she tries to break it off with him, he threatens to kill he