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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fielder Cook

1979

  • Drama
  • TV Movie
4.3

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.

Cast & crew

  • Fielder CookDirector
  • Paul BenjaminFreeman
  • Diahann CarrollVivian
  • Ruby DeeGrandmother Baxter
  • Roger E. MosleyBailey, Sr.
  • Esther RolleMomma
  • Madge SinclairMiss Flowers
  • Sonny Jim GainesUncle Willie
  • Art EvansPrincipal

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