Film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. The plot centres around an elderly Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur. It explores racism, and anti-semitism in the American south. It won four Academy Awards including best picture.
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Driving Miss Daisy
Jessica Tandy, 1909 - 1994, actress and star of 'Driving Miss Daisy', was bor...
Actor. Born near Smithfield, North Carolina, USA. Married: Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra (divorced 1957). This last was a famously stormy and passionate romance. Aged 33 moved to Madrid,...
Founded by brothers David William and Thomas J. Gobbett, it was the first purpose-built film studio in Walthamstow. It produced few notable films, but one, 'Anarchy in England' retold the story (us...
Born Birmingham. Film producer. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Went on to run Ealing Studios from 1938-56. His daughter married Cecil Day Lewis. Died East Sussex. The National Portrait Gal...
Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 in the Victoria Hotel, 79 Westborough, Scarborough, Yorkshire, one of the five children of Robert Laughton (1868-1924) and Eliza Laughton (1869-1953). On t...
Person, Armed Forces, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
Actor. Born 24 Regent Square. First to take the role of Dr Who, 1963-66. Died in a hospital near Maidstone.
