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The relationship between a 70-year-old Southern woman and her black chauffeur, spanning 20 years.

...in 1988 for his play about cranky Miss Daisy, a Southern Jewish widow loosely...the stunt casting of Dan Aykroyd as Miss Daisy's son smacks of box-office insurance...onstage. Hoke uses humor to disarm Miss Daisy's bigotry, but when a stand must...

Alfred Uhry was a professional songwriter, lyricist and comedy writer who supported himself as a teacher at a New York private school and a college instructor. Already 40, he wrote a play based on…

A former Wall Street investor, the Montreal-born Eberts began his career in features in the early 1970s arranging financing. After relocating to London, England, where he eventually rose to managing…

Versatile, commanding stage performer, often opposite husband Hume Cronyn, who acted in occasional features beginning in the early 1930s but was busiest in films while in her seventies and eighties.…

The tenth of 18 children born to Bahamian immigrants, Esther Rolle danced in her early years and played in numerous stage productions and small roles in films before being "discovered" in middle age…

Arguably the most formidable talent to emerge from the original ensemble of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ), Canadian Dan Aykroyd enjoyed sustained success as a writer, actor and director,…

Perhaps the least lionized of the Australian New Wave filmmakers, Bruce Beresford has developed a reputation for drawing extraordinary performances from his actors, as well as enjoying great success…

It would seem almost preordained that the son of legendary studio head Darryl F. Zanuck would pursue a career in the film industry. While still in college, Richard D Zanuck began working in the story…

One of the more successful female producers, Zanuck, who has also begun a secondary career as a director, reached the top at a very young age. After a brief stint as a research assistant with the…