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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Directed by Fielder Cook
Overview
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.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Esther Rolle | Ruby Dee | Paul Benjamin | Tonea Stewart | Diahann Carroll | Roger E. Mosley | Art Evans | Madge Sinclair | Georgia Allen | J. Don Ferguson | Constance Good | Sonny Jim Gaines | Darleen Taylor | Darryl Antony Williams | Shaunery Stevens | Monica Kyles | Frankie Mitchell | Rick Salassi | Lewis Liddell | Sammy Liddell | Sylvester Spann | Hosie Phillips | Myra Jo Arvin | George Cummins | Torain | Laurie Waters | Mose Lee Williams | M.L. Breeland | Angela Brown | Abbie Burns | Johnny Lewis | John L. Patterson | James Peters | Melvin Kennerly | Shirley Perkins | John C. Roper Jr. | Terri Ann Ross | I.D. Thompson | John M. Driver II