I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Original title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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4.2/10
(8)
4/28/1979
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1h 36min

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Drama
TV Movie
Synopsis
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.
Direction: Fielder Cook
Screenwriter: Leonora Thuna, Maya Angelou
Producer: Jean Moore Edwards
Cast

Paul Benjamin
Freeman

Diahann Carroll
Vivian

Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle
Momma

Madge Sinclair
Miss Flowers

Art Evans
Principal

J. Don Ferguson
Mr. Donleavy