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      • The characters in Driving Miss Daisy (1987) are based on people that Uhry knew growing up, including his grandmother and her African-American chauffeur.
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  2. Nov 5, 2019 · Read about the real life inspiration behind Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play “Driving Miss Daisy” which ran at The Smith Center in the 2019-2020 season.

  3. 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.

  4. Oct 1, 2024 · Q: Is Driving Miss Daisy based on a true story? A: No, the film is not based on a true story. However, it does draw inspiration from Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

  5. Sep 30, 2024 · Uhry’s play Driving Miss Daisy was inspired by the relationship between his grandmother, Lena Fox, and her longtime chauffeur, Will Coleman. The play opened Off-Broadway in 1987, with Freeman playing the chauffeur, and it earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

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  6. Jan 31, 2014 · In 1915, 28 years before the setting of Driving Miss Daisy a man was lynched for belonging to the Jewish faith. While this was not depicted in the film, director Urhy does make reference to an actual synagogue bombing that happened in 1967 and was instigated by the Klu Klux Klan in Atlanta.

  7. Apr 28, 2016 · Driving Miss Daisy is based on the actual family history of the playwright, Alfred Uhry. This production by Act II Playhouse captured that domestic feeling more than any I’ve ever attended.

  8. Driving Miss Daisy was the first play that Alfred Uhry wrote and he based it on people he had known growing up in the South, particularly his grandmother and her driver. The play’s original schedule called for it to run for five weeks at Playwrights Horizon, a New York nonprofit theater that seated an audience of seventy-four.

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