Holliday was friends with Academy Award-winning actor
Dustin Hoffman in whose iconic film,
Les Hommes du président (1976), she had a small role. He tried to get her cast (in the role that ultimately went to
Doris Belack, as Rita, the hard-nosed producer of the fictional soap opera ("Southwest General") within the movie in
Tootsie (1982), and reportedly based his characterization of "Dorothy Michaels" in the same film at least partially on Holliday's impression of "Flo".
