The Crowning Experience

Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many schools for the under-privileged.

• Rickard TegströmDirector
• Alan ThornhillWriter
• Marion Clayton AndersonDirector

• Muriel SmithEmma Tremaine
• Ann BucklesSarah Miller Spriggs
• Louis BylesCharlie as a Man
• George McCurdyCharlie as a Boy
• William Pawley Jr.Mr. Spriggs
• Phyllis KonstamMrs. Spriggs
• Anna Marie McCurdyJulie
• Robert AndersonBlaney
• Cecil BroadhurstEditor
• Joel McCreaPrologue Narrator