Lady Sings the Blues
- Drama
- Music
10/12/1972
144
R
Diana Ross is Billie Holiday. Diana Ross sings Billie Holiday. And a superstar is born.
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
- Director:
- new york city
- brothel
- jazz singer or musician
- mental breakdown
- biography
- addiction
- rape victim
- tour bus
- racism
- based on memoir or autobiography
- period drama
- drug overdose
- music history
- lynching
- dying young
- black singer
- withdrawal
- heroin addict
- nightclub singer
- blues music
- billie holiday
- harlem, new york city
- carnegie hall
- rise to fame
- wayward girl
- death of a musician
- music tour
- 1940s
- somber
- 1930s
- following one's dream
- desperate
- former prostitute
- period film
- straight jacket
- cautionary
- black woman
- cultural icon
- woman's story
- disheartening
- powerful
- woman musician
- deep south racism
- kkk rally
Videos
Cast
Diana RossBillie Holiday
Billy Dee WilliamsLouis McKay- Richard PryorPiano Man
- James T. CallahanReg Hanley
- Paul HamptonHarry
- Sid MeltonJerry
- Virginia CapersMama Holiday
- Yvonne FairYvonne
- Isabel SanfordThe Madame
Tracee LylesThe Prostitute- Ned GlassThe Agent
- Milton SelzerThe Doctor
- Norman BartoldThe Detective #1
- Clay TannerThe Detective #2
- Jester HairstonThe Butler
- Bert KramerThe Policeman