I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Poster

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)

04/28/1979 Drama, TV Movie 1h 36m
42%
User
Score
7.0/10

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.

Fielder Cook

Director

Maya Angelou

Writer

Leonora Thuna

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle

Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair

Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

Sonny Jim Gaines

Sonny Jim Gaines

Uncle Willie

Art Evans

Art Evans

Principal

Constance Good

Constance Good

Maya

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