Bruce Beresford from the play by Beth Henley, did a segment of the film "Aria" (1987), and did the comedy thriller "Her Alibi" (1989) with Tom Selleck. Beresford directed "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989) with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, from a play by Alfred Uhry. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Beresford was not nominated as director. The film was a commercial and critical success. Asked if he minded not even being nominated for the Best Director Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", Beresford said: "No, not at all. I didn't think it was that well directed. It was very
Junior Miss (film) Junior Miss (film) Junior Miss is a 1945 American comedy film starring Peggy Ann Garner as a teenager who meddles in people's love lives. A collection of Sally Benson's stories from "The New Yorker" was published by Doubleday as "Junior Miss" in 1941. This was adapted by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields into a successful play that same year. Directed by Moss Hart, "Junior Miss" ran on Broadway from 1941 to 1943. In 1945, the play was adapted to the film "Junior Miss" with George Seaton directing Peggy Ann Garner in the lead role of Judy Graves. The "Junior Miss"