Jessica Tandy/Hume Cronyn “Hitch Presents” Notes

Two nights back, Monday into Tuesday, I tuned into “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” on MeTV and thoroughly enjoyed a Robert Stevens directed episode starring the great actor/actress (with names I believe call people what they want to be called), Jessica Tandy.

The following episode (1:35-2:05) starred another great actor, Hume Cronyn, who was married to Ms. Tandy for 52 years until her death. I enjoyed it as well, but honesty compels me to state, I opted for sleep halfway through, as a function of being tired, not as “editorial comment” regarding the episode.

A most noteworthy foretelling scene was in Tandy’s episode, titled “The Yellow Canary Sedan,” as she is on camera for significant minutes even in the likely highly “chopped” aired event, sitting in the back of the car, being driven by a chauffeur, in this case named “Chang” (played by Weaver Levy), as she is in busy, bustling, heavily populated Hong Kong, in the 1958 episode.

Certainly, among Jessica Tandy’s most famous roles and not so arguably her best known, is her turn being driven by a Morgan Freeman played driver, in “Driving Miss Daisy,” some 31 years later.

The great Jessica Tandy is pictured above.