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Lady Sings the Blues (film)
1972 film by Sidney J. Furie
Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographicalmusicaldrama film directed by Sidney J.
Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography that, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It is produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures.
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Diana Ross, in her feature film debut, portrays Holiday, alongside a cast that includes Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan and Scatman Crothers.[5] The film was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1973, including Best Actress for Diana Ross.
Plot
In 1928 Baltimore, Eleanora Fagan, also known as Billie Holiday, is working as a 15-year-old housekeeper in a brothel. While home alone at her aunt's house, she is raped by a man who followed her from the brothel.
She flees to her mother Sadie, who sets her up a job cleaning for another brothel in Harlem. The brothel is run by Lorraine, a woman who pays little mone