Movie: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Top 10 Billed Cast

Paul Benjamin
Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley
Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle
Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair
Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

Sonny Jim Gaines
Sonny Jim Gaines

Uncle Willie

Art Evans
Art Evans

Principal

Constance Good
Constance Good

Maya

John M. Driver II
John M. Driver II

Bailey, Jr.

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    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

    1979-04-28

  • Average

    4.2

  • Rating:

    2.1 starts
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    English
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