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Lady Sings the Blues

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Lady Sings the Blues
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R,2hrs 24min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1972
Director:
Sidney J. Furie
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor  ...more
Synopsis: Diana Ross plays the magnificent, tragic song stylist Billie Holiday, who while writhing in a strait jacket in a prison cell, awaiting sentencing on drug charges, reflects on her turbulent life. Raped in her youth by a drunk (Adolph Caesar), then compelled to work as a domestic in a Harlem whorehouse, Holliday is encouraged to try for a singing career by the bordello's pianist (Richard Pryor). She rises as high as it is possible to go in the white-dominated show business world of the 1930s, but can't ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
You would think that the eventful and exciting life of Billie Holiday would provide more than enough dramatic material for an engrossing, involving, and emotion-packed motion picture, but apparently the creators of Lady Sings the Blues thought otherwise. Rather than concentrate on the fascinating real life of the woman who was arguably the world's most influential jazz vocalist, the screenwriters and ... Full Review
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Diana Ross
Billie Holiday
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Louis McKay
Richard Pryor
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Graduating from girl-group success with the Supremes to solo diva, Diana Ross made headlines in 1972...
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