Lady Day Sings The Blues

Format: dvd
Condition: Good

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Media Type: DVDs

Genres: Biography · Drama · Music · Romance

Actors: Billie Holiday · Billy Dee Williams · Diana Ross · James T. Callahan · Paul Hampton · Richard Pryor

Directors: Sidney J. Furie

Writers: Billie Holiday · Chris Clark · Suzanne De Passe · Terence McCloy · William Dufty

Producers: Berry Gordy · Brad Dexter · Eddie Saeta · James S. White · Jay Weston

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Movie / Show Details

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Hudson Music

Music: Michel Legrand

Region: Region 1

Number of Discs: 1

Screen Ratio: Widescreen (1.85:1)

Runtime: 02:24

Audience: US - R

UPC: 030309990696

Virtual SKU: MWV.B0009RS08I.G

Lady Day Sings the Blues is a 1972 biographical drama directed by Sidney J. Furie that traces the life of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Diana Ross stars as Holiday, alongside Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, and James T. Callahan. The film follows Holiday from her difficult childhood through her ascent to stardom, exploring her battles with drug addiction and her complicated relationship with her manager as she became one of the most influential jazz vocalists in American music history.

This single-disc DVD release runs two hours and twenty-four minutes and carries an R rating from Paramount Pictures. The widescreen presentation features Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and includes rare, never-before-seen performances by Holiday herself, with selections spanning her career including “Strange Fruit,” “God Bless the Child,” “Fine and Mellow,” “Don’t Explain,” and duets with Count Basie and Mal Waldrol, among others. Own this piece of music and cinema history on physical media at a used price.

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