Ruby Bridges
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Euzhan Palcy
Paula Davis
Georgia Weeks
Diana Scarwid
Derin Altay
Charlie Lucas
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Fact-based dramatization of the triumph of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, one of the first African-American students to integrate a public elementary school in New Orleans. She overcomes the difficulties and challenges of her situation with the help of teacher Barbara Henry; psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles; and her proud, but worried parents, Lucielle and Abon Bridges.
Director
Euzhan Palcy
Cast
Paula Davis
Georgia Weeks
Diana Scarwid
Derin Altay
Charlie Lucas
Gil Johnson
Joe Maggard
Branden Morgan
Whitney Tucker
Kevin Pollak
Toni Ann Johnson
Kiara Tucker
Lela Rochon
Michael Lynn Burgess
John P Menese
Jeffrey Spoto
Ralph Wilcox
John Keenan
Patrika Darbo
Chuck Kinlaw
Robin Robertson
D L Anderson
Christopher Stokes
Al Butler
Jean Louisa Kelly
Joan Gibson
Peter Francis James
Christian Fincannon
Michael Beach
Penelope Ann Miller
Chaz Monet
Crew
Jacqueline Bisbano
Timothy M. Bourne
Ruby Bridges
Rick Clark
Tyler Daum
Stephen P Davis
Louis F Difelice
Peggy Farrell
Robert Girolami
Vernon Harrell
Olivia Harris
Tammy Haynes
Anne Hopkins
Phyllis Huffman
Ingrid Johanson
Toni Ann Johnson
Paul Lamastra
Leigh Leverett
Ted Long
Christine Moore
Sandra Orsolyak-allen
Euzhan Palcy
Marian Rees
Carl Rudisill
Patrice Rushen
John W. Simmons
Art Sims
Linwood Taylor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States February 8, 2000
Aired in United States January 18, 1998
Released in United States on Video February 8, 2000
Chaz Monet makes her television debut in the title role.
Telecast as a presentation of "The Wonderful World of Disney."
Began shooting August 18, 1997.
The image of Ruby Bridges escorted to school under the protection of federal marshals inspired the Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With."
