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Customer Reviews
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MAGNIFICENT ASSOCIATION -DIANA ROSS/BILLIE HOLIDAY-
THIS STORY IS SO POWERFUL, ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED.
THE MUSIC IS MAGIC AND DIANA ROSS PLAYS LADY DAY LIKE IF SHE WAS POSSESSED WITH HER SOUL AND BLUES.
I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE HUNDREDS OF TIMES AND I CRY AND LAUGH, EVERY TIME.
I HAVE PURCHASED THIS MOVIE SEVERAL TIMES TO GIVE IT TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
DON'T HESITATE AND ENJOY THE RIDE !!! VERY STRONG.
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UnMissable Ross
Why has this been essentially forgotten for 30 years? It's as good if not better than Coal Miner's Daughter or The Buddy Holly Story -- very well-written and directed. Yes, it glamorizes Billie and ,more significantly her man, but it really holds up as a film. It's odd this movie isn't held in higher regard.
Diana is really amazing. No, she doesn't look like Billie. No, she doesn't sound like Billie, but watching it I felt she captured something essential. Why doesn't she get props for this? It's like if Usher suddenly gave the performance Jamie Foxx did in Ray. It's astonishing she never went on to have a big film career. Today, people talk about Dorothy Dandridge getting nominated more - for a musical where she didn't even do her own singing.
The eerie thing about watching this. I kept thinking, "Who does she remind me off?" And then it hit me. "Oh yeah, Michael." It's all here. You can see the birth of the whole affect of Michael Jackson's various screen / video performances.
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case of mistaken identity...
I remember watching this movie when it came out. I thought it was ok. Until I read Billie Holiday's Autobiography. Hence, the two stars. I'm not sure anyone would want to make a movie about what Lady Day went through back then. She was young when she lost her life. And I don't know how she managed to live so long, with what she had to live with in those days. Which is still known to exist today! God Bless. When are we going to wake up! Lady Day is the Greatest! She could sing without even trying. And when she didn't feel like it, she couldn't. She has the most beautiful voice I've heard. Read her book. It's a beautiful, sad story...
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Lady Sings The Blues Rules!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 30 years old, and even though the movie was out 5 years before I was born, I love that movie. My mom and my dad went to see it in the movies when it first hit the theatres, so I had the privilege to see it. My mom told me all about the movie. She had the soundtrack of that movie in vinyl!!!!!!! I remember when I first watched it on TBS when I was 15 years old, and I couldn't believe my eyes. Diana played a helluva role as Billie Holiday. Billy Dee Williams was the sexiest man alive. I wish I was my age back then. He was gorgeous!!!! Ever since I saw that movie, I was addicted to it. I was so happy that it was on DVD. Richard Pryor was funny as hell in that movie. I think that this was the best role that Richard Pryor played in next to Jo Jo Dancer: Your Life Is Calling. He had me dying in Lady Sings The Blues. A lot of black female artists used this movie to make a music video out of it. This movie influenced a lot of black artists to base it on their videos. I love Lady Sings The Blues. I own the DVD now, and I'm wearing it out. Diana Ross should've won an Academy Award for Best Actress for that role, but I guess at the time, they weren't ready to give such an award to a black woman. This is a classic that everybody should enjoy! I LOVE YOU, DIANA!!!!!!!
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This is not Billie Holiday
I am a big fan of Lady Day and therefore I had to watch this movie. It was one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. The person in this movie has nothing to do with Billie Holiday.
The music was typical Diana Ross style and had nothing to do with the music of Billie. I have never wanted to hear Diana Ross interpreting Lady Day in her own way. The orchestra plays jazz in 60s style.
In this film there is no Teddy Wilson, no Lester Young, no John Hammond, no Milt Gabler... Can you believe that?
