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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
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40
NR
1 hr 36 min
Apr 28th, 1979
Drama
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TV Movie
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Based on writer Maya Angelous 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
Starring
Paul Benjamin
Diahann Carroll
Ruby Dee
Director
Fielder Cook
Writers
Maya Angelou
Leonora Thuna
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Original Language:
English
Executive Producers:
Thomas W. Moore
Production Companies:
Tomorrow Entertainment
Movie Tags:
racism
childhood
trauma
based on memoir or autobiography
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Cast & Crew
P
Paul Benjamin
as Freeman
D
Diahann Carroll
as Vivian
R
Ruby Dee
as Grandmother Baxter
R
Roger E. Mosley
as Bailey, Sr.
E
Esther Rolle
as Momma
M
Madge Sinclair
as Miss Flowers
F
Frank J. Urioste
Editor
C
Caro Jones
Casting
P
Peter Matz
Original Music Composer
C
Carl Anderson
Art Direction
R
Ralph Woolsey
Director of Photography
M
Maya Angelou
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