I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
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.
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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
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