Polly: Comin' Home!

Nov 18, 1990

1h 40m

★ 8.5

Overview

Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.

Genres

Family

Music

TV Movie

Production Companies

Echo Cove Productions

Walt Disney Television

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Cast

Polly

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Aunt Polly

Phylicia Rashād

Doctor Shannon

Dorian Harewood

Jimmy Bean

Brandon Quintin Adams

Nancy Dodds

Vanessa Bell Calloway

George Dodds

T.K. Carter

Mayor Warren

Ken Page

Mr. Tarbell

George Anthony Bell

Reverend Gillis

Larry Riley

Dabney Mayhew

Anthony Newley

Miss Snow

Celeste Holm

Mrs. Conley

Barbara Montgomery

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