Esther Rolle
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The ninth in a family of 18 children, Esther Rolle left her family's Florida home for New York once she came of age. She worked her way through Hunter College, Spellman College and the New School for Social Research. Even after her 1962 New York stage... more
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Cast: Alfre Woodard Mary Alice Al Freeman, Jr. Esther Rolle Wesley Snipes   
Tags: Americana Drama Childhood Drama Coming-of-Age Rural Drama 
Length: 111min
Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but originally produced for the Showtime cable network. Unemployed single mother Loretta (Alfre Woodward) lives with her mother, Rosa Lynn...

Cast: Kathleen Turner Tommy Lee Jones James Horner Esther Rolle Walter Murch   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 109min
In Michael Lessac's lugubrious House of Cards, women's intuition beats out psychology in the battle against autism. The story begins in Mexico, where a little girl named Sally Matthews (Asha Menina) lives with her parents, scientists studying ancient...

Cast: Danny Glover Bill Duke Louis Gossett, Jr. Esther Rolle Harold Scott   
Tags: Family Drama Urban Drama Social Problem Film Drama 
Length: 171min
Raisin in the Sun is a 1989 TV adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Broadway play (previously filmed in 1962). An African-American family hopes to use a 10,000 legacy left them by the family's late father to move out of the Chicago projects and...

Cast: Jessica Tandy Bruce Beresford Morgan Freeman Richard D. Zanuck Hans Zimmer   
Tags: Period Film Message Movie Drama 
Length: 99min
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the 25-year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur, Hoke (Morgan...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Cast: Ruby Dee Fielder Cook Diahann Carroll Esther Rolle Madge Sinclair   
Length: 100min
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is based on the writings of African-American poet/playwright Maya Angelou. Though she eventually became America's poet laureate, Angelou was once just another little black girl growing up in Depression-era Arkansas. Her...

Cast: Melvin Van Peebles Esther Rolle Rhetta Hughes Avon Long   
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Comedy 
Length: 95min
Melvin Van Peebles' first film after his groundbreaking laxploitation effort Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was this photographed version of his Broadway musical +Don't Play Us Cheap, in which a pair of Satan's helpers, in order to earn their...



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