Directed by Rickard Tegström
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many schools for the under-privileged.
Muriel Smith
Emma Tremaine
Ann Buckles
Sarah Miller Spriggs
Louis Byles
Charlie as a Man
George McCurdy
Charlie as a Boy
William Pawley Jr.
Mr. Spriggs
Phyllis Konstam
Mrs. Spriggs
Anna Marie McCurdy
Julie
Robert Anderson
Blaney
Cecil Broadhurst
Editor
Joel McCrea
Prologue Narrator
Afternoon
Model Minority
Overseas
August Rush
Marquise
Across the Universe