Lady Sings the Blues
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.
1 April 1906, Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
1931, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2 January 1916, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
20 October 1945, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 May 1907, California, USA
6 November 1895, Italy
25 October 1918, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
21 October 1942, Richmond, Virginia, USA
18 February 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
April 18, 1916 in New York, New York, USA
25 April 1930, Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA
9 May 1923, St. Albans, Vermont, USA
January 4, 1929 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1 December 1924, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
4 October 1930, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
22 September 1925, Sumter, South Carolina, USA
20 August 1937, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
7 April 1920, Columbus, Ohio, USA
6 April 1937, New York City, New York, USA
27 October 1951, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 October 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
November 01, 2004
Great score, great singing, but overdramatic thanks to Ross.
October 28, 2005
Berry Gordy's gift to Diana Ross was this lavish, bloated Billie Holiday biopic.
January 01, 2000
Clearly, it's an affront to Holiday's art, but just as clearly, it's a good piece of low entertainment.
January 25, 2006
Ross so perfectly captures the essence of Billie Holiday's vocal style that it sends chills down your spine.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
January 24, 2006
Ross conveys the vulnerability and determination of her character across a very believable arc of maturation.
