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Lady Sings The Blues

1972, Movie, R, 144 mins

Lady Sings The Blues: Review

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View this film about Billie Holiday as a completely fictional story, and you'll enjoy it far more than you would otherwise. Ostensibly based on Holiday's autobiography, LADY SINGS THE BLUES begins in the early 1930s in Baltimore, where the teenaged Billie (Diana Ross) is raped and then sent to New York to stay with a friend of her mother's. In Harlem she works first as a maid, and later as a whore, in a brothel. With the encouragement of the brothel's "piano man" (Richard Pr... read more leave a comment

Lady Sings The Blues: Cast & Details

Year: 1972
Rated R
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Cast
 Diana Ross: Billie Holiday
Billy Dee Williams: Louis McKay
Richard Pryor: Piano Man
James Callahan: Reg Hanley
Paul Hampton: Harry
Sid Melton: Jerry

 

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