Lady Sings the Blues

Diana Ross is Billie Holiday. Diana Ross sings Billie Holiday. And a superstar is born.

Sinopse

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.

6.9
1972
Released
2h 24m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$2,000,000.00

Revenue

$19,726,490.00

Keywords

#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
#woman's story
#disheartening
#powerful
#woman musician
#deep south racism
#kkk rally

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Reviews

@Geronimo19675 months ago

I’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 p