Love in a Taxi better known for their stage work; Jacobs' only other major contribution to film was an indirect one (writing much of the original material that was incorporated into the major hit film "Grease"). Love in a Taxi Love in a Taxi is a 1980 American film starring Diane Sommerfield and Jim Jacobs. The story of a romance between a Jewish New York cab driver, Sam, and Corinne, an African-American mother and bank clerk with a young son, Davey. After Davey rides in Sam's cab one day, Davey brings Sam and Corinne together. Corinne and Sam are accidentally involved in a drug
Yellow Cab Company Yellow Cab Company The Yellow Cab Company was a taxicab company in Chicago which was founded in 1907 by John D. Hertz. In 1920 the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company was formed to manufacture taxicabs. During the 1910s and 1920s the company was involved in considerable illegal activity relating to mobsters and in particular to the Chicago Outfit. Yellow Cab was involved in a bitter rivalry with Checker Taxi at the time which led to a number of shootings, deaths and firebombings. By 1925 the company was a subsidiary of the 'Chicago Yellow Cab Company', a public holding company with shares