Lady Sings the Blues
Diana Ross is Billie Holiday. Diana Ross sings Billie Holiday. And a superstar is born.
Overview
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. 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.
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Revenue
- $19,726,490
- Production
- Weston Productions, Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sidney J. Furie Productions
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Cast
Diana Ross
Billie Holiday
Billy Dee Williams
Louis McKay
Richard Pryor
Piano Man
James T. Callahan
Reg Hanley
Paul Hampton
Harry
Sid Melton
Jerry
Virginia Capers
Mama Holiday
Yvonne Fair
Yvonne
Isabel Sanford
The Madame
Ned Glass
The Agent
Milton Selzer
The Doctor
Norman Bartold
The Detective #1
Jester Hairston
The Butler
Bert Kramer
The Policeman
Paul Micale
The Maitre d'
Byron Kane
The Announcer
George Wyner
The M.C.
Don McGovern
Reporter #1
Lynn Hamilton
Aunt Ida
Harry Caesar
The Rapist
Crew
- Director
- Sidney J. Furie
- Producers
- Jay Weston,Berry Gordy,Brad Dexter,James S. White
- Cinematography
- John A. Alonzo
- Composer
- Michel Legrand
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CinemaSerf
July 5, 2025
I’ve never really be an huge fan of Diana Ross’s voice, but there’s no getting away from her personable and visceral performance here as the flawed jazz musician Billie Holliday. With Motown’s Berry Gordy at the helm it was always going to lead on the music and it does that effectively too for the most part whilst giving us the basic bones of her turbulent battle with narcotics. We start in that position so often inhabited by aspirational young black Americans, a poverty stricken environment whe…