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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

28 Apr 1979
  • United States of America
96 mins
4.2
8 votes
  • Drama
  • TV Movie
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Paul Benjamin

    as Freeman
  • Diahann Carroll

    as Vivian
  • Ruby Dee

    as Grandmother Baxter
  • Roger E. Mosley

    as Bailey, Sr.
  • Esther Rolle

    as Momma
  • Madge Sinclair

    as Miss Flowers
  • Sonny Jim Gaines

    as Uncle Willie
  • Art Evans

    as Principal
  • Constance Good

    as Maya
  • John M. Driver II

    as Bailey, Jr.
  • Georgia Allen

    as Mrs. Gurney
  • J. Don Ferguson

    as Mr. Donleavy

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