Driving Miss Daisy and violent people deny their humanity and ours, what a lesson to see a film that looks into the heart." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" also gave the film a positive review, calling Tandy's performance "glorious" and opining, "This is Tandy's finest two hours onscreen in a film career that goes back to 1932." The performances of Tandy and Freeman were also praised by Vincent Canby of "The New York Times", who observed, "The two actors manage to be highly theatrical without breaking out of the realistic frame of the film." "Driving Miss Daisy" also achieved the following distinctions at
Miss Germany mobilized against the "meat-inspects". Public interest diminished. Influential organisers became not active before the end of the 1970s. The international franchises held by "Opal" became vacant. In 1979, "Miss Germany" was elected live in the German television for the first time. It was not until 1982 that the first rival contest was held again after a long interval. Since 1985, at least two organisations run rival pageants: Notes: Daisy d’Ora was a pseudonym. The real name of the 1931 winner was "Daisy, Baronesse von Freyberg". – In 1935, Elisabeth Pitz from Saarbrücken participated in the Miss Europe Pageant in Paris