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Great Performances

Driving Miss Daisy - Preview

Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones.

Aired 07/17/2015 | Rating NR

Great Performances

Driving Miss Daisy - Preview

Preview: Season 42 Episode 18 | 35s

Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones.

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.

Aired 07/17/2015 | Rating NR

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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...

Driving Miss Daisy: A Christmas Critique

Daisy Werthan complains about how her daughter-in-law has embraced Christmas traditions. (2m 45s)

Driving Miss Daisy: Hoke Gets a Raise

Chauffeur Hoke Colburn asks for a raise after he receives a competing job offer. (2m 56s)

Driving Miss Daisy: Leaving Georgia

While on a drive, Daisy shares a family memory with her chauffeur Hoke. (2m 8s)

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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...

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