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White Mama

8.019801h 45mNRMovieDramaTV Movie

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.

DirectorJackie Cooper
WriterRobert C.S. Downs
ProducersJean Moore Edwards·Thomas W. Moore

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Cast · Directed by Jackie Cooper

BDBette Davis
Bette Davis
Estelle Malone
EJErnest Harden Jr.
Ernest Harden Jr.
B.T. Williamson
EHEileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart
Three Bag Lady
VCVirginia Capers
Virginia Capers
Gorilla Sydney
ARAnne Ramsey
Anne Ramsey
Heavy Charm
LTLurene Tuttle
Lurene Tuttle
Mrs. McIntyre
TBTony Burton
Tony Burton
Black Fighter
PSPeg Shirley
Peg Shirley
Judge Alice Quentin
EHErnie Hudson
Ernie Hudson
Counsellor
DM
Dan Mason
Father Gannon
VSVincent Schiavelli
Vincent Schiavelli
Medic
CH
Cheryl Harvey
Probation Woman

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