waitress

Her big break in film came in a waitress role in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore in 1974, which earned her an Oscar nomination.

“People in love are boring,” she notes of a steady, chatty customer known simply as the waitress.

Smith’s mother was a waitress who also took in ironing.

One evening in the late 1950s, in Tokyo Station, a waitress is witnessed boarding a train in the company of an attractive young man.

She was then working as a waitress and secretary, but already had dreams of living among animals in Africa.