Born June 7, 1909, in London, Jessica Tandy was at home on stage and screen on both sides of the Atlantic. She made her New York stage debut in 1930 and her film debut two years later in the British film The Indiscretions of Eve.Tandy's Hollywood film career began with 1944's The Seventh Cross and continued with The Valley of Decision, Dragonwyck, Forever Amber, The Desert Fox and The Birds. She won a 1948 Tony Award as Blanche DuBois in the original 1948 Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and another in 1978 for "The Gin Game" with husband Hume Cronyn. The couple also appeared on-screen in such films as Cocoon and Batteries Not Included.
Tandy capped her career with a Best Actress Oscar for the title role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). She was nominated again for Fried Green Tomatoes; her final film was Nobody's Fool. Tandy died Sept. 11, 1994.
Fried Green TomatoesIn this adaptation of Fanny Flagg's novel, flashbacks reveal the remarkable and mysterious story of soul mates Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town during the 1920s. Read More
Driving Miss DaisyThis four-time Academy Award-winning story based on Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play chronicles the unlikely bond between a genteel but strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her good-natured African-American chauffeur (Morgan Freeman). It's a contest of wills as they learn how... Read More
Batteries Not IncludedAfter their apartment building is bought by an unscrupulous developer, Frank and Faye Riley (real-life couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy) face eviction. But the poor retirees and their neighbors receive help from an unlikely source -- a clan of tiny robotic aliens who supply free electricity and... Read More
Nobody's Fool / Fat Man & Little BoyPaul Newman turns in a pair of memorable performances in this double feature, playing Sully Sullivan, an emotionally immature construction worker, and Leslie Groves, the powerful Army general who oversaw the Manhattan Project. In Nobody's Fool, Sully has an epiphany when he learns he has a grandson.... Read More
Camilla (1994) | PG-13 | |
To Dance with the White Dog (1993) | PG | |
Used People (1992) | PG-13 | |
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) | NR | |
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) | PG | |
R | ||
Cocoon: The Return (1988) | PG | |
The House on Carroll Street (1988) | PG | |
Batteries Not Included (1987) | PG | |
Foxfire (1987) | PG | |
Cocoon (1985) | PG-13 | |
The Bostonians (1984) | NR | |
The World According to Garp (1982) | R | |
Best Friends (1982) | PG | |
Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) | PG | |
Butley (1974) | R | |
The Birds (1963) | PG-13 | |
Adventures of a Young Man (1962) | NR | |
The Desert Fox (1951) | NR | |
September Affair (1950) | NR | |
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