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Lady Sings The Blues
Studio Motown Productions Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date(s) October 12, 1972 Running time 144 minutes Country United States Language English Format:avi IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068828/  Directed by Sidney J. Furie Produced by Brad Dexter Jay Weston James S. White Written by Suzanne de Passe Chris Clark Terence McCloy Lady Sings The Blues was nominated for five Academy Awards. The nominations were for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Diana Ross), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Carl Anderson, Reg Allen), Best Costume Design, Best Music, Original Song Score and Adaptation (Gil Askey) and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced. The film was also screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. 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. The film takes several liberties with the 44-year existence of "Lady Day." Among the Billie Holiday standards performed by Ross are "My Man," "I Cried for You," "Lover Man," "Them There Eyes," and the title song.  Cast Diana Ross as Billie Holiday Billy Dee Williams as Louis McKay Richard Pryor as Piano Man James Callahan as Reg Hanley (as James Callahan) Paul Hampton as Harry Sid Melton as Jerry Virginia Capers as Mama Holiday Yvonne Fair as Yvonne Isabel Sanford as Madame Tracee Lyles as Prostitute Ned Glass as Agent Milton Selzer as Doctor Norman Bartold as The Detective #1 Clay Tanner as Detective #2 Jester Hairston as Fefe Bert Kramer as The Policeman Paul Micale as The Maitre d' Michelle Aller as The Singer Byron Kane as The Announcer Barbara Minkus as Radio Actress Kay Lewis as Angela DeMarco Helen Lewis as Debbie McGee George Wyner as The M.C. Shirley Melline as The Policewoman Toby Russ as The Jail Guard Larry Duran as Hood #1 Ernest Robinson as Hood #2 (as Ernie Robinson) Don McGovern as Reporter #1 Dick Poston as Reporter #2 Charles Woolf as Reporter #3 Denise Denise as Denise Lynn Hamilton as Aunt Ida Victor Morosco as Vic Robert Gordy as The Hawk Harry Caesar as The Rapist Paulene Myers as Mrs. Edson Scatman Crothers as Big Ben Darlene Conley as - (uncredited) Jayne Kennedy as Louis's Date (uncredited) Thumbnails:  Technical Information General Complete name : H: Lady Sings The Blues.avi Format : Audio Video Interleave File size : 1.33 GiB Duration : 2h 24mn Overall bit rate : 1 326 Kbps Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : FMP4 Bit rate : 330 Kbps Width x Height : 352 x 240 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.2:1 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Audio ID : 1 Format : MPEG Audio Version 1 Layer 2 Bit rate : 64.0 Kbps Constant Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Related Torrents
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