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...final steps on the stage. Her death last week marked the end of a grand procession of characters she created by inhabiting them. This London-born actress's signature roles, as Blanche du Bois in the original 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and as Daisy Werthan in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, were both mid-century Southern belles. They were also polar opposites: a woman plummeting from nymphomania into dementia; a lady struggling to balance propriety and humanity. For Streetcar she won the first of three Tonys (the others were for two collaborations with Cronyn...
Such a metaphor is available in Driving Miss Daisy. If you look hard, you can find in this account of the 25-year relationship between Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), a genteel Southern, Jewish matriarch, and her black chauffeur, Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), a microcosmic study of changing racial attitudes in a crucial time and place (Atlanta, circa 1948-73). What you will not find in this marvelously understated movie is overtly inspirational comments on that subject, broad sentimentality or the slightest pomposity about its own mission. In other words, Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more...
...elected to the Radcliffe chapter are Edith Baras of Roxbury; Joan Louise Foster, of Everett Hall and Hanover, N.H.; Abigail J. Lewis, of Holmes Hall and New Haven, Conn.; Cynthia M. Rich of Moors Hall and Baltimore; Ann Waddington of Briggs Hall and Bartlesville, Okla.; and May Werthan, of Eliot Hall and Nashville, Tenn...
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