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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 · 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.
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- Jackie Cooper
- 1980-03-05
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Feb 27, 2017 · Subject: heartbreaking movie. Melodramatic but still relevant today with the problematic of homeless people. Two totally different people finding each other. Bette Davis perfect as usual. White Mama ( 1980) With Bette Davis And Ernest Harden Jr. ( Full TV Movie.
Jan 2, 2010 · In the last years of her life, Bette Davis spoke lovingly of her Emmy-nominated performance in White Mama, a favorite of her latter-day films, and considered...
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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.