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Lady Sings the Blues
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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, tells the story of her troubled life and career.
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, tells the story of her troubled life and career.
Actors:
Paulene Myers,
Ned Glass,
Gary Bohn,
Mavis,
Billy Dee Williams,
Kay Lewis,
Bert Kramer,
Dick Poston,
Clay Tanner,
Barbara Minkus,
Toby Russ,
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Paulene Myers
9 November 1913, Ocilla, Georgia, USA
Ned Glass
1 April 1906, Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
Gary Bohn
January 4, 1929 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Mavis
Billy Dee Williams
6 April 1937, New York City, New York, USA
Kay Lewis
Bert Kramer
10 October 1934, San Diego, California, USA
Dick Poston
7 April 1920, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Clay Tanner
3 February 1931, Clay, Indiana, USA
Barbara Minkus
20 February 1942, Los Angeles, California, USA
Toby Russ
Director:
Sidney J. Furie
Sidney J. Furie
28 February 1933, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Country:
United States
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New York Times
May 09, 2005
How is it possible for a movie that is otherwise so dreadful to contain such a singularly attractive performance in the title role?
October 03, 2006
View this film about Billie Holiday as a completely fictional story, and you'll enjoy it far more than you would otherwise.
Kansas City Kansan
November 01, 2004
Great score, great singing, but overdramatic thanks to Ross.
ColeSmithey.com
January 25, 2006
Ross so perfectly captures the essence of Billie Holiday's vocal style that it sends chills down your spine.
Hollywood Reporter
January 24, 2006
Ross conveys the vulnerability and determination of her character across a very believable arc of maturation.
January 01, 2000
Clearly, it's an affront to Holiday's art, but just as clearly, it's a good piece of low entertainment.
October 07, 2005
Ross and director Sidney J. Furie seem to feel that the slower the song, the more serious the mood, so at times the film seems to be grinding almost to a halt
October 23, 2004
The movie is filled with many of the great Billie Holiday songs, and Ross handles them in an interesting way. She doesn't sing in her own style, and she never tries to imitate Holiday, but she sings somehow in the manner of Holiday.
October 28, 2005
Berry Gordy's gift to Diana Ross was this lavish, bloated Billie Holiday biopic.
June 30, 2011
Though she doesn't look or sing as Billie Holiday, Diana Rosss gives a commendable performance in this fictionalized biopic, for which she received an Oscar noimination.