The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
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Cast
Cicely Tyson
Eric Brown
Richard Dysart
Joel Fluellen
Will Hare
Katherine Helmond
David Hooks
Elinora B. Johnson
Warren Kenner
Dudley Knight
Derrick Mills
Valeria Odell
Michael Murphy
Odetta
Rod Perry
Roy Poole
Josephine Premice
Thalmus Rasulala
Al Scott
Dan Smith
Carol Sutton
Wilbur Swartz
Bill Walker
Collin Wilcox Paxton
Arnold Wilkerson
Beatrice Winde
Teddy Airhart
Woody Chambliss
Barbara Chaney
Jerry Green
Jerry Leggio
Harold Sylvester
Tony Thomas
Brick Tilley
Crew
John Korty
Tracy Keenan Wynn
Ernest J. Gaines
Stan Winston
Rick Baker
Robert W. Christiansen
Rick Rosenberg
Philip Barry Jr.
Fred Karlin
James Crabe
Sidney Levin
Jack G. Roberts
Michael D. Haller