Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Hoke Colburn

Daisy Werthan

Boolie Werthan

Florine Werthan

Idella

Miss McClatchey

Oscar

Dr. Weil

Nonie

Miriam

Beulah

Neighbor Lady

Red Mitchell

Trooper #1

Trooper #2

Slick

Insurance Agent

Soloist

Commerce Club Member

Extra at MLK Speech (uncredited)

Himself (uncredited) (archive sound)

Girl at Temple

So convinced was she that she would lose out, Jessica Tandy had a $100 bet with her agent that she wouldn't win the Oscar for Best Actress. When she paid up on Oscar night, she told him that it was the best bet she had ever lost.

Before Idella dies, she and Hoke are watching The Edge of Night (1956). During the period in which the movie is set, CBS aired "Edge" live at 4pm every day.

Alfred Uhry's 1987 play "Driving Miss Daisy," on which this movie is based, is the first of his "Atlanta Trilogy" of plays about Jews in Atlanta, Georgia. The other two plays are "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" (1996), a play about a family preparing for the Atlanta Jewish society cotillion, and "Parade" (1998), a musical about the false conviction and 1915 lynching of Atlanta factory manager Leo Frank.

Hoke arrives at Miss Daisy's on the day of the ice storm. As Miss Daisy walks across the room, there is a window behind her and it looks like a green leafy tree can been seen outside. It looks like it is a very cold snowy day so unless the tree is a pine or fir, it looks like spring or summer. Also there is no ice or snow on the tree.

In the Temple, the officiant is shown and heard reading from the Torah scroll, the words (in Hebrew), "Here O Israel the Lord is our God, the Lord is One". This portion of the Torah is read annually in the synagogue in the summer season (around July or August). In the next scene, Hoke and Daisy are seen driving past houses with Christmas lights and talking about the forthcoming Christmas holiday.

The morning of the ice storm scene brought a power outage to Miss Daisy's house, but an outside view of her porch that morning clearly shows a large light fully ablaze.

Idella: I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.

Daisy Werthan: [Hoke and Daisy are driving to Boolie and Florene's for a Christmas party. Daisy, a Jew, is annoyed at the extraneous Christmas light displays] Everybody's wishing the Georgia Power Company a Merry Christmas.

Daisy Werthan: [on the phone, trying to get a ride to her hair appointment] Well, I need you now, I have to be at the beauty parlor in half an hour... no, I most certainly did NOT know you have to call a minimum of three hours ahead! I don't know why you call yourselves a taxicab company if you can't provide taxicabs!