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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
Paul Benjamin | Diahann Carroll | Ruby Dee | Roger E. Mosley | Esther Rolle | Madge Sinclair | Sonny Jim Gaines | Art Evans | Constance Good | John M. Driver II | Georgia Allen | J. Don Ferguson | Tonea Stewart | Monica Kyles | Rick Salassi | Lewis Liddell | Sammy Liddell | Sylvester Spann | Shaunery Stevens | Hosie Phillips | Myra Jo Arvin | George Cummins | Torain | Darleen Taylor | Laurie Waters | Mose Lee Williams | Frankie Mitchell | 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 | Darryl Antony Williams