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Lady Sings the Blues

  • 1972
  • 16
  • 2 Std. 5 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,0/10
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Available Now on Blu-Ray
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Die Geschichte des unruhigen Lebens und der Karriere des legendären Jazzsängers Billie Holiday.Die Geschichte des unruhigen Lebens und der Karriere des legendären Jazzsängers Billie Holiday.Die Geschichte des unruhigen Lebens und der Karriere des legendären Jazzsängers Billie Holiday.

  • Regie
    • Sidney J. Furie
  • Drehbuch
    • Chris Clark
    • Suzanne De Passe
    • William Dufty
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Diana Ross
    • Billy Dee Williams
    • Richard Pryor
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    7,0/10
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    • Regie
      • Sidney J. Furie
    • Drehbuch
      • Chris Clark
      • Suzanne De Passe
      • William Dufty
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Diana Ross
      • Billy Dee Williams
      • Richard Pryor
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    • Für 5 Oscars nominiert
      • 5 Gewinne & 8 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Diana Ross
    Diana Ross
    • Billie Holiday
    Billy Dee Williams
    Billy Dee Williams
    • Louis McKay
    Richard Pryor
    Richard Pryor
    • Piano Man
    James T. Callahan
    James T. Callahan
    • Reg Hanley
    • (as James Callahan)
    Paul Hampton
    Paul Hampton
    • Harry
    Sid Melton
    Sid Melton
    • Jerry
    Virginia Capers
    Virginia Capers
    • Mama Holiday
    Yvonne Fair
    • Yvonne
    Isabel Sanford
    Isabel Sanford
    • The Madame
    Tracee Lyles
    • The Prostitute
    Ned Glass
    Ned Glass
    • The Agent
    Milton Selzer
    Milton Selzer
    • The Doctor
    Norman Bartold
    Norman Bartold
    • The Detective #1
    Clay Tanner
    • The Detective #2
    Jester Hairston
    Jester Hairston
    • The Butler
    Bert Kramer
    Bert Kramer
    • The Policeman
    Paul Micale
    • The Maitre d'
    Mavis
    • The Singer
    • (as Michele Aller)
    • Regie
      • Sidney J. Furie
    • Drehbuch
      • Chris Clark
      • Suzanne De Passe
      • William Dufty
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    5rooprect

    Seriously flawed

    Before watching this I knew that it wouldn't be factually correct. I knew that Diana Ross would sing in her own style without trying to imitate the real Billie Holiday. And I knew that this film was hated & protested by Billie's real life associates and family. I watched it anyway expecting to enjoy it the same way I enjoyed Amadeus even though it stepped all over the real Mozart. I mean, c'mon people, if we want history we should go to a library, not a movie theatre.

    But with all that said I was still horribly put off by the lack of continuity with the spirit of Billie's life. For one thing, Diana's portrayal made Billie look like a blabbering halfwit. Even in the scenes where she's supposed to be stone cold sober she acts like a flake. If you've ever seen footage of the real Billie, you know that the real Lady was a tough, sharp, smart human being. You don't survive on the streets of New York by being an idiot the way she's shown to be in the film.

    Next, the performances were shown totally out of context. For example, the song "My Man" is a chilling song about spousal abuse, but in the movie they gloss it up to be a feel-good homage to her guardian angel of a husband Louis McKay. In real life, Louis was as abusive as all of her husbands (hence the song "My Man"). This is just one example of the many incorrect interpretations this movie presents of Billie's music and her life.

    OK, but like I said in my 1st paragraph, I can allow the director some poetic license if the movie is worthwhile. Unfortunately this movie didn't deliver. Instead of focusing on the true hardships and trials that plagued Ms. Holiday, we get a whole bunch of clichés about drug use, trying to make it in the business, and how you're supposed to be good to your friends. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be about Billie Holiday or if it was just an ABC afterschool special with clever packaging.

    The acting was good (if you choose to accept the idea of Billie Holiday being a weak minded flake), and there were several dramatic moments that were well staged. But here's my biggest gripe: the musical score KILLED this movie! It's supposed to be a 1940s jazz biopic, so why are we getting 70s "star search" orchestrations? You know, like the cheezy swelling violins and pseudo-disco drums when Ed McMahon reads the winner of the competition. Talk about an anachronism, to say nothing of the way it cheapens some otherwise powerful moments.

    Lastly, I have to say that fans of Billie's music will be pretty annoyed at Diana Ross's versions. They are two totally different singers. Billie sang in a lower register (except when hitting those high notes which she always did clean & clear WITHOUT vibrato) whereas Diana prefers theatrics in the upper register and doesn't go very low at all. This is really a movie for Diana Ross fans or for casual jazz listeners who have never heard of Billie Holiday. Like another reviewer suggested, if you're truly interested in Billie, you should buy some of her records or try to find some old films of her performances. Her music is the best biography you'll ever get.
    frank56

    An amazing (and I do mean amazing) acting debut. End of story.

    Now that I am fortysomething (which amazes even me), I can look back and remember the Supremes final appearance on the Ed Sullivan show...and I can also remember Ed announcing that "Miss Ross is leaving the Supremes to pursue an acting career". An acting career....who does she think she is? I pondered this question for the longest time, and remained disappointed in Diana Ross until the very first moments of "Lady Sings the Blues", which play like a jazz tune that seems, at first, to make no sense until you as the listener finally tune into the music which actually made sense all along. Diana Ross dosen't so much act the part of Billie Holiday -- she crafts an unforgettable performance that both embodies the spirit of Holiday while also demonstrating the simplest but most complicated acting demands....she simply poses the question, "What if this were my life?". She produces an acting performance that, coupled with the personalized Holiday vocal interpretations, pull the audience into a deeper and deeper sense of completely going on the character's complete life journey -- you completely believe Ross is Holiday because she is so sure of herself -- SHE believes it -- completely. The story follows a typical formula, but the true reason to watch this film is the acting lesson that Ross teaches. Watch this one -- and learn a little something about craft -- from a master instructor, way ahead of her time.
    9Rupe-5

    Ross Totally deserved the Oscar over Liza Minelli

    I would be the first to agree that it was standard fare as far as a musical bio...and Cabaret was a superior film. But Diana Ross' performance was a stunning film debut. This is the kind of overlooked performance that makes it so clear that pure ability is not what the Academy Awards are all about. I tend to think really great acting always sneaks above the voting members scope of being able to truly reccognize great acting.

    But anyone who hasn't seen Diana Ross' performance in Lady is in for a treat. To think that she went through so many transitions within the film: from youngster, to a drug addict, to a grand singer...it's a truly great performance.
    6moonspinner55

    Meandering biography of Lady Day...

    Diana Ross is quite superb as jazz singer Billie Holiday, but even so this clichéd bio-drama of the drug-addicted torch diva from the 1930s is hardly convincing. After an enjoyably overwrought prologue (with Holiday brutally incarcerated like a gangster out of a Jimmy Cagney flick), the movie sputters along familiar territory, and the burnished, brackish look of the picture--probably meant for prestige--is a visual downer. The tone wavers at times (a comedic sequence with Scatman Crothers is either a distraction or a relief), and the film's flashback structure is a cheap gimmick (you know you're in for it when the filmmakers start super-imposing headlines across the screen--it's movie shorthand for "we're running out of time"). Ross is a spectacular drawing card, but this vehicle for her debuting acting talents leaves much to be desired. **1/2 from ****
    7eddax

    The movie was unfortunately not as good as Diana Ross.

    The first question that would run across the mind of anyone who'd watch this movie is: "Can Diana Ross act?" The answer, I'm glad to say, is an unequivocal "Yes." And I think that's what the director wanted to clear up right from the very first scene, with a flash forward to Billie Holiday's drug bust while the credits were still on. Ms. Ross, devoid of make-up and with "crazy hair," put on an extremely convincing performance of heroin (or coke) withdrawal, replete with howling.

    Her performance is the highlight of the movie, which unfortunately felt like it ran way too long, and I found myself constantly checking the run time. It wasn't bad as a musical. As I had read previously, Ms. Ross didn't seek to imitate Billie Holiday's style, and instead created a distinct and appropriate - yet similar - jazz style of her own just for the movie (check out "Good Morning Heartache"), and I, being a fan, didn't mind the song interludes.

    What dragged the movie was the constant focus on Holiday's drug addiction (to showcase more of Ms. Ross's acting?). It felt like there was scene after scene of her being drug-addled, whining, and screaming, which began to abrade after a while. It's too bad, since with better direction and screenplay, coupled with Ms. Ross's capable acting and singing, this could've been one of the truly great musical biopics.

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    • Wissenswertes
      According to Diana Ross, Richard Pryor instructed her on how to behave during the scenes of drug use.
    • Patzer
      Some of the African-American male characters and extras sport modern (1972) hair styles with Afros or sideburns which were not in style in the 1930s.
    • Zitate

      Billie Holiday: [after Louis discovers that Billie shoots up] Sure I've taken a few shots, but only when I needed it,

      [Louis sighs]

      Billie Holiday: but i'm not hooked, Louis. I'm not.

      Louis McKay: Only when you needed it. What do you think hooked is? All I had to do is listen to your voice on the telephone and I knew. Who the hell do you think you're talking to? One of those ofay cats you be running around with? I've been on those streets all of my life. I know what that shit is!

      Billie Holiday: It's good, ain't it?

      [Louis then gets up and takes her suitcase and starts packing her stuff]

      Billie Holiday: Wait, Wait, Baby! Oh, no.

      Louis McKay: We're going home. Now!

      Billie Holiday: [Stopping him] Wait, hey, baby, wait. See, you don't understand. Now, you don't know how it is when people are looking down at you and laughing at you and think that I'm a loser. And if I go home now, I'll think that I'm one, too. I gotta prove it to them. I gotta prove it to myself.

      Louis McKay: What're you proving with that needle? That you're not woman enough to make it without a crutch? A magic way out when the going gets a little too rough? I want you to make it, too, baby. But not this way. Not this way.

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Lady Sings the Blues (Featurette) (1972)
    • Soundtracks
      Tain't Nobody's Business
      Written by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins

      Sung by Blinky (as Blinky Williams)

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      • 1. November 1973 (Westdeutschland)
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      • Englisch
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      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
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      • Jobete Productions
      • Motown Productions
      • Paramount Pictures
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