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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Directed by Fielder Cook
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 36m
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
Paul Benjamin
Freeman
Diahann Carroll
Vivian
Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter
Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.
Esther Rolle
Momma
Madge Sinclair
Miss Flowers
S
Sonny Jim Gaines
Uncle Willie
Art Evans
Principal
C
Constance Good
Maya
J
John M. Driver II
Bailey, Jr.
G
Georgia Allen
Mrs. Gurney
J. Don Ferguson
Mr. Donleavy
Crew
- Director
- Fielder Cook
- Writer
- Leonora Thuna, Maya Angelou
- Novel
- Maya Angelou
- Director of Photography
- Ralph Woolsey
- Original Music Composer
- Peter Matz
- Editor
- Frank J. Urioste
- Producer
- Jean Moore Edwards
Details
- Release date
- 1979-04-28
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Tomorrow Entertainment