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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

6.6/ 1019741h 52m

DramaTV Movie

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.

Directed by John Korty

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson

Jane Pittman

Eric Brown

Eric Brown

Jimmy (age 7)

Richard Dysart

Richard Dysart

Master Bryant

Joel Fluellen

Joel Fluellen

Unc Isom

Will Hare

Will Hare

Elbert Cluveau

Katherine Helmond

Katherine Helmond

Lady at House

David Hooks

Colonel Dye

Elinora B. Johnson

Mary