Driving Miss Daisy: Hoke Gets a Raise
Clip: Season 42 Episode 18 | 2m 56s
Chauffeur Hoke Colburn asks for a raise after he receives a competing job offer.
Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones), a chauffeur for Daisy Werthan, asks her son Boolie Werthan (Boyd Gaines) for a raise after he receives a competing job offer. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars five-time Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury and two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner James Earl Jones as Daisy Werthan and Hoke Colburn.
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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: Hoke Gets a Raise
Clip: Season 42 Episode 18 | 2m 56s
Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones), a chauffeur for Daisy Werthan, asks her son Boolie Werthan (Boyd Gaines) for a raise after he receives a competing job offer. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars five-time Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury and two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner James Earl Jones as Daisy Werthan and Hoke Colburn.
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Clip: S42 Ep18 | 2m 45s | Daisy Werthan complains about how her daughter-in-law has embraced Christmas traditions. (2m 45s)
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