Driving Miss Daisy Driving Miss Daisy The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life, synagogue, friends, family, fears, and concerns over a twenty five-year period. "Driving Miss Daisy" was a critical and commercial success upon its release and at the 62nd Academy Awards received nine nominations, and won four; Best Picture, Best Actress (for Tandy), Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1948, Mrs. Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy), a seventy-two-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired school teacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for an
Oscar Schlitter it every other year between 1933 and 1939, alternating with , the former boss of Disconto-Gesellschaft. Schlitter's paternal ancestors came from Schlitters in the west of the Tyrol, but the family successfully relocated further north as protestant refugees. In 1904 Oscar Schlitter married Anna Bandhauer, the daughter of Otto Bandhauer, Director of the Essen-based West German Insurance and Investment Bank (""Westdeutsche Versicherungs-Aktienbank""). Their son was Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter who in 1932 married the film actress and former Miss Germany, Daisy D'ora, joined the Nazi Party in 1934 and spent the twelve Nazi years working in a succession of important