Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play. Both follow the story of widowed Daisy Werthan, a retired school teacher, and her chauffeur Hoke Colburn. The film won four Academy Awards, and the play won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

References

• The movie poster was parodied in the Muppet Parodies 1998 Calendar as Driving Me Crazy, with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy in the lead roles.

• The film title and loose concept were spoofed with the Dinosaurs episode "Driving Miss Ethyl."

• In the Muppet Babies episode "Muppet Babies: The Next Generation," the Babies (as characters from The Jetsons) play a game of charades, with one of the guesses being "Washing Miss Daisy."

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Connections

• Dan Aykroyd played Boolie Werthan in the feature film
• Morgan Freeman played Hoke in the 1989 film and the original stage production.

External links

• IMDb
• Internet Off-Broadway Database