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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:
Bill Scully,
Bert Kramer,
Byron Kane,
Paul Micale,
Harry Caesar,
George Wyner,
Jester Hairston
Bill Scully
April 18, 1916 in New York, New York, USA
Bert Kramer
10 October 1934, San Diego, California, USA
Byron Kane
9 May 1923, St. Albans, Vermont, USA
Paul Micale
2 January 1916, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Harry Caesar
18 February 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
George Wyner
20 October 1945, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jester Hairston
9 July 1901, Belews Creek, North Carolina, USA
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United States
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Bill Scully
April 18, 1916 in New York, New York, USA
Bert Kramer
10 October 1934, San Diego, California, USA
Byron Kane
9 May 1923, St. Albans, Vermont, USA
Paul Micale
2 January 1916, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Harry Caesar
18 February 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
George Wyner
20 October 1945, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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October 28, 2005
Berry Gordy's gift to Diana Ross was this lavish, bloated Billie Holiday biopic.
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.
January 01, 2000
Clearly, it's an affront to Holiday's art, but just as clearly, it's a good piece of low entertainment.
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.
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
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.
Kansas City Kansan
November 01, 2004
Great score, great singing, but overdramatic thanks to Ross.
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.