Great Performances - Season 42 Episode 19 : Driving Miss Daisy
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Great Performances - Season 42 Episode 19 : Driving Miss Daisy

Alfred Uhry’s classic play is a searing, funny, and hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between two of popular culture’s most enduring characters. Daisy Werthan (Angela Lansbury) is a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, and Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones) is an African American man who works as her chauffeur.

  • Released: 1971-01-28
  • Runtime: 00:120:60 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Drama
  • Network: PBS
  • Stars: Bray Poor

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