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3 lip 2024 · List of Driving Miss Daisy characters, including pictures when available. These characters from Driving Miss Daisy are ordered by their significance to the film, so main characters are featured at the top while minor characters and cameos are further down on the list.
6 wrz 2024 · Analysis and discussion of characters in Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy.
Pulitzer Prize-winning, Driving Miss Daisy, is set in Atlanta and spans twenty-five years, from 1948 to 1973. When Daisy Wertham, a stubborn, elderly Southern widow, crashes her new car into the neighbor’s garage, her son, Boolie, forces her to take on a chauffeur.
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on his 1987 play. The film stars Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, and Dan Aykroyd. Freeman reprised his role from the original Off-Broadway production.
The characters in Driving Miss Daisy(1987) are based on people that Uhry knew growing up, including his grandmother and her African-American chauffeur. The play, Uhry’s first, was an instant success, quickly moving from the 74-seat Studio Theatre to another larger Off-Broadway theater and winning for Uhry another Drama Desk nomination.
When she first meets Hoke, she tells him: IDELLA: I wouldn't be in your shoes if the sweet Lord Jesus came down and asked me Himself. Miss Daisy is nicer to Idella than many white folks are to their maids. Florine yelling at her maid is one notable contrast.
See the cast of Driving Miss Daisy and get description and analysis of the characters and actors.
