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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • April 28, 1979
  • Runtime
  • 96 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, TV Movie
  • Director
  • Fielder Cook

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Cast

Paul Benjamin photo Paul Benjamin Freeman Diahann Carroll photo Diahann Carroll Vivian Ruby Dee photo Ruby Dee Grandmother Baxter Roger E. Mosley photo Roger E. Mosley Bailey, Sr. Esther Rolle photo Esther Rolle Momma Madge Sinclair photo Madge Sinclair Miss Flowers Sonny Jim Gaines Uncle Willie Art Evans photo Art Evans Principal

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