The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - 1974
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Updated: 18 Jul 2022
Directors:
Rick Baker John Korty Tracy Keenan Wynn Stan Winston Ernest J. Gaines
Actors:
Cicely Tyson Richard Dysart Eric Brown Joel Fluellen Will Hare Katherine Helmond David Hooks Elinora B. Johnson Warren Kenner Dudley Knight Derrick Mills Valeria Odell 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
Genre:
Western, War, Thriller, TV Movie, Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Music, Horror, History, Fantasy, Family, Drama, Documentary, Crime, Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Action
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Year: 1974
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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At age eight, Davis saw Cicely Tyson perform in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which chronicled the life of an ex-slave. “She looked like my mom. She had full lips, dark skin; she was sweating; she had a small Afro. It catapulted me out of my world. I thought if I could do something like that with my life, it would be an honorable thing to do.”
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