driving miss daisy

     

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfre Uhry about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish lady and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, from 1948 to 1973. The original off-Broadway production starred Dana Ivey and Morgan Freeman. The first production took place at Playwrights Horizons Theatre on 42nd Street in New York. It later moved down the street to the John Houseman Theatre. Ivey's performance garnered her an Obie Award as Best Actress. The play was the first in Uhry's "Atlanta Trilogy" dealing with Jewish residents of that city in the early 20th century. The play was Uhry's most successful, winning him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was performed in London's West End in 1988, with Dame Wendy Hiller as Miss Daisy Werthan.

Trivia about driving miss daisy

  • 72-year-old Daisy Werthan gets a chauffeur after she wrecks her car in Act I of this play
  • (Morgan Freeman gives the clue.) I received my second Oscar nomination for this 1989 film set in the mid-20th century South
  • Plays about driving include Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" & this Alfred Uhry work
  • Film in which Morgan Freeman tells Jessica Tandy, "I'm just trying to drive you to the store"
  • Chauffeur Hoke Colburn(1989)
  • This Alfred Uhry play was based on the story of his Jewish grandmother & her black chauffeur
  • "Last Night of Ballyhoo" is Alfred Uhry's first new play since this one about a woman & her chauffeur
  • This pic shows "the social changes taking place in the south between 1948 and 1973, and (a) remarkable 25-year friendship
  • Alfred Uhry is the only person to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play--this one

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