
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979•96 min•
★4.0
DramaTV Movie
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.
Cast & Crew

Paul Benjamin
Freeman

Diahann Carroll
Vivian

Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle
Momma

Madge Sinclair
Miss Flowers

Sonny Jim Gaines
Uncle Willie

Art Evans
Principal

Constance Good
Maya

John M. Driver II
Bailey, Jr.

DirectorFielder Cook











