backdrop Lady Sings the Blues

Original title

Lady Sings the Blues

Status: Released

Runtime:

144 minutes

Release date

1972-10-12

IMDB ID tt0068828

WikiData ID Q1754478

TMDB ID 23148

Original language en

Production Countries

Description

The movie Lady Sings the Blues (Original title Lady Sings the Blues) has in the main roles on Billy Dee Williams (Louis McKay), Richard Pryor (Piano Man), James T. Callahan (Reg Hanley), Isabel Sanford (The Madame), Norman Bartold (The Detective #1), Paul Micale (The Maitre d'), George Wyner (The M.C.), Larry Duran (Hood #1), Scatman Crothers (Big Ben) The release date of the movie is 12.10.1972. This movie it is produced by Weston Productions, Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sidney J. Furie Productions . Filmed in the following locations: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA . Production countries: United States of America Movie Genre: Movies Drama, Movies Music, Movies Romance

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.

Actors and actresses from the movie

Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams

  • 1937-04-06

William December Billy Dee Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, voice actor, and artist. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s, and nearly forty years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals be

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

  • 1940-12-01

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, writer, and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epit

James T. Callahan

James T. Callahan

James T. Callahan

  • 1930-10-04

Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford

  • 1917-08-29

Isabel Sanford (born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford; August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004) was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian best known for her role as Louise Weezy Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she

Norman Bartold

Norman Bartold

Norman Bartold

  • 1928-08-06

Norman Hillman Bartold (August 6, 1928 – May 28, 1994) was an American film and television actor. He played Mr. Brody in eight episodes of the American television sitcom Teachers Only. He also played the District Attorney Donahue in the short-lived television series Adams Rib.

Paul Micale

Paul Micale

Paul Micale

  • 1916-01-02

George Wyner

George Wyner

George Wyner

  • 1945-10-20

A native of Boston and graduate of Syracuse University, George has worked extensively in TV and film since 1972. Notable film work includes the Coen Brothers best-picture nominee A Serious Man (2009) as Rabbi Nachtner, Mel Brooks Spaceballs (1987) as Colonel Sandurz, and his To Be or Not to Be (1983

Larry Duran

Larry Duran

Larry Duran

  • 1925-07-26

Lawrence Duran (July 26, 1925 – November 27, 2002) was an American actor and stuntman. He was perhaps best known for playing Chico Modesto in the 1961 film One-Eyed Jacks.

Scatman Crothers

Scatman Crothers

Scatman Crothers

  • 1910-05-22

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBenjamin Sherman Scatman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980. He was also a

Related More Movies

No data available

Login / New Account to be able to comment

Be the first to open the comment list