I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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.

• Fielder CookDirector
• Maya AngelouWriter
• Peter MatzOriginal Music Composer
• Leonora ThunaWriter

• Paul BenjaminFreeman
• Diahann CarrollVivian
• Ruby DeeGrandmother Baxter
• Roger E. MosleyBailey, Sr.
• Esther RolleMomma
• Madge SinclairMiss Flowers
• Sonny Jim GainesUncle Willie
• Art EvansPrincipal
• Constance GoodMaya
• John M. Driver IIBailey, Jr.
• Georgia AllenMrs. Gurney
• J. Don FergusonMr. Donleavy