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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979 · Fielder Cook · 96 min

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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.

Paul BenjaminFreemanDiahann CarrollVivianRuby DeeGrandmother BaxterRoger E. MosleyBailey, Sr.Esther RolleMommaMadge SinclairMiss FlowersSSonny Jim GainesUncle WillieArt EvansPrincipalCConstance GoodMayaJJohn M. Driver IIBailey, Jr.GGeorgia AllenMrs. GurneyJ. Don FergusonMr. DonleavyTonea StewartLillieMMonica KylesJulieRRick SalassiParmenian

Cast

Paul BenjaminFreemanDiahann CarrollVivianRuby DeeGrandmother BaxterRoger E. MosleyBailey, Sr.Esther RolleMommaMadge SinclairMiss FlowersSSonny Jim GainesUncle WillieArt EvansPrincipalCConstance GoodMayaJJohn M. Driver IIBailey, Jr.GGeorgia AllenMrs. GurneyJ. Don FergusonMr. DonleavyTonea StewartLillieMMonica KylesJulieRRick SalassiParmenian

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