The Princess and the Cabbie is a 1981

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aired on CBS on 3 November 1981 about a young woman who struggles with

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. 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

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, T. S. Eliot,

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and

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. Also starring is

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/ref> After leaving her book in his cab, Holiday gets to know her and discovers Joanna's secret: she can't read, write, or even remember telephone numbers or directions home. Determining that she is

dyslexic Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, r ...

, Holiday begins to help her gain independence.

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*1982:

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: Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) ''Nominated'': *1982:

: Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special

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