I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Release Date: 1979-04-28

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.

Rating: 4 / 10

Cast

Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin

as Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

as Vivian

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

as Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

Roger E. Mosley

as Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle

Esther Rolle

as Momma

Crew

  • Fielder Cook - Director

  • Maya Angelou - Novel

  • Maya Angelou - Writer

  • Leonora Thuna - Writer

  • Ralph Woolsey - Director of Photography

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