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The Princess and the Cabbie
The Princess and the Cabbie is a 1981 television movie aired on CBS on 3 November 1981 about a young woman who struggles with dyslexia.
The film stars Valerie Bertinelli as Joanna James, an heiress who is sheltered from the real world. One day she meets literary cab driver, Joe Holiday (Robert Desiderio), who references Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert and Agatha Christie. Also starring is Shelley Long. After leaving her
", "Matlock", "Family Ties", "Murder, She Wrote", "Murphy Brown" and "Ugly Betty". He appeared in a number of made for television movies, include "The Princess and the Cabbie" and "Once You Meet a Stranger". Desiderio co-wrote the 2007 film "Save Me" starring Chad Allen and his wife Judith Light.