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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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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.

April 28, 1979

1h 36m

en

4.0TMDB

Director: Fielder Cook

Writers: Leonora Thuna, Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou

Cast

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

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

J. Don Ferguson

Mr. Donleavy

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