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White Mama

A proud widow. A frightened homeless kid. Nobody cared about them until they cared enough to fight for each other.

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White Mama — Plot

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.

  • Release date
  • March 5, 1980
  • Runtime
  • 105 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, TV Movie
  • Director
  • Jackie Cooper

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White Mama — Cast

Bette Davis photo Bette Davis Estelle Malone Ernest Harden Jr. photo Ernest Harden Jr. B.T. Williamson Eileen Heckart photo Eileen Heckart Three Bag Lady Virginia Capers photo Virginia Capers Gorilla Sydney Anne Ramsey photo Anne Ramsey Heavy Charm Lurene Tuttle photo Lurene Tuttle Mrs. McIntyre Tony Burton photo Tony Burton Black Fighter Peg Shirley photo Peg Shirley Judge Alice Quentin

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