I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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.

Director: Fielder Cook

Cast

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

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Sonny Jim Gaines

Uncle Willie

Art Evans

Principal

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Constance Good

Maya

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John M. Driver II

Bailey, Jr.