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Lady Sings the Blues |
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Genre
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Drama,
Biography [feature],
Musical Drama,
Showbiz Drama.
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Year
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1972 |
Director
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Sidney J. Furie.
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Actors
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Diana Ross,
Billy Dee Williams,
Richard Pryor,
James Callahan,
Paul Hampton,
Sid Melton,
Michelle Aller,
Norman Bartold,
Harry Caesar,
Virginia Capers,
Scatman Crothers,
Denise Denise,
Larry Duran,
Yvonne Fair,
Ned Glass,
Robert L. Gordy,
Jester Hairston,
Lynn Hamilton,
Byron Kane,
Bert Kramer,
Helen Lewis,
Kay Lewis,
Don McGovern,
Paul Micale,
Barbara Minkus,
Paulene Myers,
Dick Poston,
Ernie Robinson,
Isabel Sanford,
Milton Selzer,
Clay Tanner,
Charles Woolf,
George Wyner,
Tracee Lyles.
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File
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Runtime: |
144:00 |
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dvd-rip / xvid |
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1392.64 Mb |
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Storyline:
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 handle the pressure and turns to narcotics. The film takes several liberties with the 44-year existence of "Lady Day." Among the Billie Holiday standards performed by Ross are "My Man," "I Cried for You," "Lover Man," "Them There Eyes," and the title song. |
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