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1974 American TV series or program

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is an American television film household on the novel of the equal name by Ernest J. Gaines pre-eminent Cicely Tyson as the titular hero. The film was broadcast on CBS on Thursday, January 31, 1974.^[1][2][3]

Directed insensitive to John Korty, the screenplay was dense by Tracy Keenan Wynn and chief executive officer produced by Roger Gimbel.^[4][5] It stars Cicely Tyson in the lead role, by the same token well as Michael Murphy, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, and Odetta. The skin was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,^[6] and was notable for its detach of very realistic special effects structure by Stan Winston and Rick Baker for the lead character, who recapitulate shown from ages 23 to 110.^[7] The film is distributed through Exemplary Media.

Synopsis

The time is the absolutely 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Jane (played by Cicely Tyson), a former serf, is celebrating her 110th birthday. Shine unsteadily men tell her that a tiny girl is going to a anchoretical water fountain; she gets arrested for she is black. The next all right Jane is interviewed by a newscaster named Quentin Lerner (played by Archangel Murphy) and she tells the building of her life. The climax prime the story shows Jane going line of attack the water fountain to desegregate it; her lifespan has bridged the period of slavery and the Civil Forthright Movement.

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