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White Mama is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jackie Cooper and starring Bette Davis in the title role. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Robert C.S. Downs. It was broadcast as The CBS Wednesday Night Movie on March 5, 1980.
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Mar 5, 1980 · White Mama: Directed by Jackie Cooper. With Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr., Eileen Heckart, Virginia Capers. 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 ...
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- Jackie Cooper
- 1980-03-05
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Jun 9, 2021 · 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. Director: Jackie Cooper. Writer: Robert C.S. Downs.
Film Details. Genre. Drama. Release Date. 1980. Technical Specs. Duration. 2h. TCM Emails. Sign Up. Bette Davis was Emmy Award-nominated for her performance of a penniless widow who refuses to go on welfare and takes in a streetwise Black teenager as a foster child to earn money to survive.
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- John Hancock
White Mama is a fine and well made television film starring screen legend Bette Davis, as a poor aging old woman living in a decaying apartment building in the black ghetto of the city. She is befriended by a black boy, who treats her like she was his own mother.
Bette Davis and Ernest Harden Jr. star in this harrowing white savior TV drama directed by former child star and long-timer Jackie Cooper. Davis plays a widowed retiree in a poor neighborhood who takes in a foster child to earn money.
