Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Sidney J. Furie
Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton, Sid Melton, Virginia Capers, Yvonne Fair, Isabel Sanford, Tracee Lyles, Ned Glass, Milton Selzer, Norman Bartold, Clay Tanner, Jester Hairston, Bert Kramer, Paul Micale, Michele Aller, Byron Kane, Barbara Minkus, Kay Lewis, Helen Lewis, George Wyner, Shirley Melline, Toby Russ, Larry Duran, Ernest Robinson, Don McGovern, Dick Poston, Charles Woolf, Denise Denise, Lynn Hamilton, Victor Morosco, Robert L. Gordy, Harry Caesar, Paulene Myers, Scatman Crothers
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