5.8
“Diana Ross is Billie Holiday. Diana Ross sings Billie Holiday. And a superstar is born.”
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
October 12, 19722h 24mEN
6.9
75 votes
Overview
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Director
Sidney J. FurieWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2.0M
Revenue
$19.7M
Production Companies
Weston ProductionsJobete ProductionsMotown ProductionsParamount PicturesSidney J. Furie Productions
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7.0I’ve never really be an huge fan of Diana Ross’s voice, but there’s no getting away from her personable and visceral performance here as the flawed jazz musician Billie Holliday. With Motown’s Berry Gordy at the helm it was always going to lead on the music and it does that effectively too for the most part whilst giving us the basic bones of her turbulent battle with narcotics. We start in that position so often inhabited by aspirational young black Americans, a poverty stricken environment where sex was all too often the way young women made a living, before she gets that lucky break in a Ha…
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