I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979•1h 36m•4.3•Released
DramaTV Movie
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Director
Fielder Cook
Writer
Maya Angelou, Leonora Thuna
Languages
English
Studio
Tomorrow Entertainment
Cast
Paul Benjamin
Freeman
Diahann Carroll
Vivian
Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter
Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.
Esther Rolle
Momma
Madge Sinclair
Miss Flowers
Sonny Jim Gaines
Uncle Willie
Art Evans
Principal
Constance Good
Maya
John M. Driver II
Bailey, Jr.
Georgia Allen
Mrs. Gurney
J. Don Ferguson
Mr. Donleavy
Tonea Stewart
Lillie
Monica Kyles
Julie
Rick Salassi
Parmenian
Production
Company
Tomorrow Entertainment
Producer
Jean Moore Edwards
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