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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.
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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 - Preview
Preview: Season 42 Episode 18 | 35s
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.
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Driving Miss Daisy: A Christmas Critique
Clip: S42 Ep18 | 2m 45s | Daisy Werthan complains about how her daughter-in-law has embraced Christmas traditions. (2m 45s)
Driving Miss Daisy: Hoke Gets a Raise
Clip: S42 Ep18 | 2m 56s | Chauffeur Hoke Colburn asks for a raise after he receives a competing job offer. (2m 56s)
Driving Miss Daisy: Leaving Georgia
Clip: S42 Ep18 | 2m 8s | While on a drive, Daisy shares a family memory with her chauffeur Hoke. (2m 8s)
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