Lady Sings the Blues
Diana Ross is Billie Holiday. Diana Ross sings Billie Holiday. And a superstar is born.
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- Drama
- Romance
- Music
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.
Keywords
- new york city
- racism
- 1940s
- addiction
- period drama
- powerful
- desperate
- racist
- biography
- 1930s
- disheartening
- cautionary
- based on memoir or autobiography
- music tour
- nightclub owner
- jazz singer or musician
- heroin addict
- brothel
- mental breakdown
- rise to fame
- somber
- drug overdose
- harlem
- blues music
- rape victim
- lynching
- withdrawal
- dying young
- nightclub singer
- tour bus
- period film
- music history
- following one's dream
- woman's story
- carnegie hall
- black singer
- death of a musician
- straight jacket
- black woman
- billie holiday
- wayward girl
- woman musician
- kkk rally
- harlem, new york city
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 12, 1972
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- english
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Motown Productions,Weston Productions,Jobete Productions,Sidney J. Furie Productions,Paramount Pictures,Weston Productions, Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sidney J. Furie Productions
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Revenue
- $19,726,490
- IMDb
- tt0068828