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Lady Sings the Blues overview
Synopsis:
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, reflects on her turbulent life. Raped in her youth by a drunk (Adolph Caesar), then compelled to work as a domestic in a Harlem whorehouse, Holliday is encouraged to try for a singing career by the bordello's pianist (Richard Pryor). She rises as high as it is possible to go in the white-dominated show business world of the 1930s, but can't handle the pressure and turns to narcotics.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Sidney J. Furie
- Studio: Paramount
- Year: 1972
- Run Time: 144 minutes
- Country: USA
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama
- Filmed in: Color












