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Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (TV Movie 1974)
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| Cicely Tyson | ... | Jane Pittman | |
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Eric Brown | ... | Jimmy Age 7 |
| Richard Dysart | ... | Master Bryant (as Richard A. Dysart) | |
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Joel Fluellen | ... | Unc Isom |
| Will Hare | ... | Elbert Cluveau | |
| Katherine Helmond | ... | Lady at House | |
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David Hooks | ... | Colonel Dye |
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Elinora B. Johnson | ... | Mary |
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Warren Kenner | ... | Job |
| Dudley Knight | ... | Trooper Brown | |
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Derrick Mills | ... | Little Ned at age 5 |
| Michael Murphy | ... | Quentin Lerner | |
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Valerie Odell | ... | Ticey (as Valeria Odell) |
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Odetta | ... | Big Laura |
| Rod Perry | ... | Joe Pittman | |
Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook. Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil rights movement. Written by Jwelch5742
To be honest, I haven't seen this film for years but it is among the most moving I have ever seen. Most of all, it was a tour de force of acting by Cicely Tyson, giving the performance of a lifetime, in my view. This is the woman who had seen it all from civil war days to the beginning of the civil rights era. The grace, wisdom and integrity that comes through the character is phenomenal. The scene where Cicely Tyson describes the tree she loves would move even the most jaded cynic.... Though I am no historian by trade, it seems to me that this film takes us through some of the most important eras in the history of America, as seen through the eyes of the character Miss Jane Pittman. I remember I was only 20 when I saw it, but I have no doubt that this film will retain its vigor and relevancy for decades to come....