Lady Sings the Blues (film)

Lady Sings the Blues (film)

Infobox_Film
name=Lady Sings The Blues


caption = The movie poster for the film "Lady Sings The Blues"
imdb_id=0068828
writer=Chris Clark
Suzanne De Passe
William Dufty
Billie Holiday
Terence McCloy
starring=Diana Ross
Billy Dee Williams
Richard Pryor
director=Sidney J. Furie
music=Gil Askey
Michel Legrand
cinematography=John A. Alonzo
distributor=Paramount Pictures
released=October 12 1972
runtime=141 min.
language=English
movie_series=
awards=Academy Award for Best Actress (Diana Ross, 1973)
producer=Brad Dexter
Jay Weston
James S. White
budget= $14 million
gross=$19,726,490

"Lady Sings The Blues" is a semi-factual 1972 film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography (and song) of the same name. It was produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Diana Ross portrayed Holiday, alongside a cast including Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan and Scatman Crothers.

The movie was adapted by Chris Clark, Suzanne De Passe and Terence McCloy from the book by William Dufty and Billie Holiday. It was directed by Sidney J. Furie.

It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning none. The nominations were for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Diana Ross), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music, Original Song Score and Adaptation (Gil Askey) and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced. [ [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1206723622353 Academy Award Official Database for 1972] ]

The same year, Motown released a successful soundtrack double-album of Ross' recordings of Billie Holiday songs from the film, also titled "Lady Sings the Blues". The album became one of the Number-one albums of 1973 (U.S.) in the Billboard Hot 200 Album Charts, [ [http://www.sulekha.biz/ladysingstheblues.php?id=48 Article at Sulekha.biz] ] in the weeks of April 7 and 14, 1973.

References

External links

* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0068828/ Lady Sings The Blues] at the Internet Movie Database


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