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Lady Sings the Blues [Special Collector's Edition] ()

directed by Sidney J. Furie
featuring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James Callahan, Paul Hampton, Tracee Lyles

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Diana Ross plays the magnificent, tragic song stylist Billie Holiday, who while writhing in a strait jacket in a prison cell, awaiting sentencing on drug charges, reflects on her turbulent life. Raped in her youth by a drunk (Adolph Caesar), then compelled to work as a domestic in a Harlem whorehouse, Holliday is encouraged to try for a singing career by the bordello's pianist (Richard Pryor). She rises as high as it is possible to go in the white-dominated show business world of the 1930s, but can't handle the pressure and ...

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