LADY SINGS THE BLUES PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Billie Holiday,William Dufty,David Ritz | 231 pages | 25 Jul 2006 | Harlem Moon | 9780767923866 | English | United States Lady Sings the Blues PDF Book Mama Holiday Yvonne Fair Willow Weep For Me. Official Sites. My first reaction when I learned that Diana Ross had been cast to play Billie Holiday was a quick and simple one: I didn't think she could do it. Softie Monica Castillo. Vincent Canby. There is no question that no matter how extreme in the past or future Miss. Diana Ross sings Billie Holiday and a superstar is born. James S. While they are high that evening, Piano Man's drug connections arrive; he neither pawned the ring nor paid for the drugs. Italiano Svenska Edit links. Namespaces Article Talk. Ross and director Sidney J. Reply Notify me 2 Helpful. Best Horror Movies. The group heads to Cafe Manhattan to drown their sorrows. Real Quick. The Haunting of Bly Manor. Yes No Report this. Philip Martin. The songs do slow the movie down quite a bit, and it feels long at over two hours, but the Billie Holiday music is really the occasion, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. View All Photos Louis brings the doctor from the hospital to treat her, but she is incoherent. Trav'lin' Light. Imagem Jazz. Lady Sings the Blues Writer Jazz Latin New Age. Billie Holiday: "You want my arm to fall off? Callahan and Scatman Crothers. Alonzo Cinematographer. In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. View All Critic Reviews Rate This. Rotten Tomatoes. Cole Smithey. Furie, after this film, did the "Iron Eagle" films and "Superman IV", but rest easy, folks, because this film is hardly that messy. She collapses on stage. More trailers. Imagem Jazz. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life. Yvonne Fair Yvonne. Taking not even two-and-a-half hours to tell the tale of a person's rise from misfortune to stardom, and subsequent descent into a destruction of her career and life, this film stands to be more overdrawn, but it does begin to tread circles after a while of being both too padded and, as irony would have it, not padded enough. Velvet Mood Best albums by tommysoul. As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life White Producer. Official Sites. It was nominated for five Academy Awards. I don't think so. You're almost there! Get some streaming picks. The genre is well-established, and since most of the musicians they've made movies about have had unhappy private lives, there's the problem of making downhill look like uphill, at least sometimes. Perhaps atmospheric kick to this film is more uneven than merely straightfoward slow, because its sudden shifts from reasonably entertaining to kind of limp are a tad jarring at times, yet are not quite as detrimental to engagement value as what rests on the other end of the uneven jumps from non-slow spells, for although the film is never dull, it drags its feet more often than it probably should. She doesn't sing in her own style, and she never tries to imitate Holiday, but she sings somehow in the manner of Holiday. Certified Fresh Pick. The Social Dilemma Nell Minow. Trav'lin' Light. Jazz Wax Records. Alternate Versions. Available on Amazon. I Must Have That Man. He puts a ring on her finger to remind her of his promise to marry her. Billie has too much to drink and asks Harry for drugs, saying that she does not want her family to know that the radio show upset her. Chico Hamilton Drums. Lady Sings the Blues Reviews Kenny Burrell Guitar. It has what makes movies work for a mass audience: easy pleasure, tawdry electricity, personality—great quantities of personality. All of those thoughts were wiped out of my mind within the first three or four minutes of "Lady Sings the Blues", and I was left with a feeling of complete confidence in a dramatic performance. View All Quotes. Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4th ed. Archived from the original on Rotten Tomatoes. And it is just that—entertaining — because of an old fashioned grand dame performance by Diana Ross, late of the pop-rock scene, in the title role. The film very rarely takes the time that it should to flesh out the late, great Billie Holiday's story, not being harsh enouh in its portrayal of her poverty as a youth, or her immensity as a star, or even her changes as a soul who falls from grace, and that gives you enough time to meditate upon the slow spells, and the hurried spells, and, of course, the genericism, which reinforces this effort as rather forgettable as just another biopic, thus making for an unfortunately underwhelming final product that really could have rewarded. You may later unsubscribe. There, she met and fell in love with the suave Louis McKay. Los Angeles Times. Available on Amazon. Louis returns to find a very fragile Billie who is traumatized and has fallen back into drugs. Vincent Canby of The New York Times described Ross as "an actress of exceptional beauty and wit, who is very much involved in trying to make a bad movie work As Billie tried to advance her career, pressures of life, including being a black woman, led to her not so secret substance abuse especially of heroin , not so secret because of her increasingly erratic behavior, both on The formula is so firmly established that stars even seem to follow it consciously, and we're left with tantalizing possibilities: Did Judy Garland play the Palace for the last time to give the proper form to her biography? Was this review helpful to you? Taglines: Diana Ross is Billie Holiday. External Sites. I Thought About You. Scatman Crothers Big Ben. Now playing. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles with hAudio microformats Album articles lacking alt text for covers Certification Table Entry usages for United Kingdom Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments figures Pages using certification Table Entry with sales footnote Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments footnote. As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life The opening scene is one of total and unrelieved anguish; Billie Holiday is locked into prison, destitute and nearly friendless, and desperately needing a fix of heroin. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Best Horror Movies. The movie is filled with many of the great Billie Holiday songs, and Ross handles them in an interesting way. Billie promises to stay off the drugs if Louis stays with her. Pryor charms plenty, but if you want more meat in this film's acting departments, then turn to the leads, as Billy Dee Williams engages as Holiday's dashingly smooth, yet concerned lover, while leading lady Diana Ross carries the film as Holiday herself, delivering on more layers and dramatic range than the actual film does in portraying the life and times of a legendary talent. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Alternate Versions. The Haunting of Hill House. Lovecraft Country. Born Elinore Harris, Billie Holiday had a difficult teen and young adulthood period, which included working in brothels, both as a cleaning woman and a prostitute, and being raped. John A. Lady Sings the Blues Read Online Billie Holiday may have had one of your more interesting stories in the classic jazz music industry, and may have had quite a bit of influence on jazz styles, but her musical efforts weren't too terribly outstanding, so it's not like this film's soundtrack is all that outstanding, yet Holiday still turned in plenty of fine diddies, many of which can, of course, be found in this film, which puts Holiday's and a few other classic jazz talents' music to good use to liven up entertainment value, and join Carl Anderson's decent production designs in selling you on the era just fine. Certified Fresh Pick. The Good Lord Bird. Good Morning Heartache. Billie Holiday. Sid Melton as Jerry. Jazz in Film. Real Quick. Add Review kelly. American Recording Society. As a singer, She never before or since has sounded as good. Her musicality, intonation and idiomatic phrasing indicated a whole type of music she could have sung had she chosen too. Add Article. Imagem Jazz. Apr 13, Pryor charms plenty, but if you want more meat in this film's acting departments, then turn to the leads, as Billy Dee Williams engages as Holiday's dashingly smooth, yet concerned lover, while leading lady Diana Ross carries the film as Holiday herself, delivering on more layers and dramatic range than the actual film does in portraying the life and times of a legendary talent. Kenny Burrell Guitar. Marvel's Helstrom. This has a nice atmosphere to it Spotify Amazon. Virginia Capers as Mama Holiday. Color: Color. Not Now Music. Yvonne Isabel Sanford William Dufty Writer Book. 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