She knew that something was up. Diane Ladd has not appeared in the Chesapeake Shores for quite a time now, and some of the viewers think she might have left the show. I love you beyond measure, amazing Diane!!!!!!! Both sitcoms featured an ATM going haywire, Alice (Mel and the Green Machine 1980) and Three's Company (The Money Machine 1983). Diane stayed with the show just over a year, doing two and a half seasons of shows and winning a Golden Globe for her performance. Diane Ladd has been a regular in Hollywood for a long time, and not just because she is Laura Dern's mother. As Linda Lavin stated, "I was affected by what Ellen Burstyn ["Alice"] and Diane Ladd ["Flo"] brought to their relationship in the movie ["Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"]. The couple had two daughters: Diane Elizabeth Dern, who died at 18 months; and actress Laura Dern, whom Diane got to co-star with in Lauras HBO series Enlightened. Theatre actress Celia Weston then joined the cast as the good-natured, boisterous truck driver Jolene Hunnicutt, who came from Myrtle Point, South Carolina. "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind", January 22, 1978 Alice's use of psychology causes tension among her coworkers. Search Sitcoms Online: