Jessica Tandy "*batteries not included" (1987) and "" (1988) and the Emmy Award winning television film "Foxfire" (1987, recreating her Tony winning Broadway role). However, it was her colourful performance in "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), as an aging, stubborn Southern-Jewish matron, that earned her an Oscar. She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in the grassroots hit "Fried Green Tomatoes" (1991), and co-starred in "The Story Lady" (1991 telefilm, with daughter Tandy Cronyn), "Used People" (1992, as Shirley MacLaine's mother), television film "To Dance with the White Dog" (1993, with Cronyn), "Nobody's Fool" (1994), and "Camilla" (also 1994, with
Driving Miss Daisy (play) nursing home for increasing memory loss; but is lucid enough to tell Hoke, who has come to visit her, that he is her best friend. The play was inspired by Alfred Uhry's grandmother, Lena Fox, her chauffeur, Will Coleman, and his father. His grandmother, a Jewish woman who lived in Atlanta during the 1960s, had to give up driving after a car accident, and hired Coleman, who drove her for 25 years. Uhry wrote his "Atlanta Trilogy" based on his own experiences living in Atlanta as a Jew. He set his three plays at "historic moments in the city’s twentieth