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  • Diana Ross as Billie Holiday - a flower tucked behind her hair and a microphone in front of her.
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LADY SINGS THE BLUES

5:30

Monday, February 10

(1972, Sidney J. Furie) The romanticized, but engrossing, screen bio of Billie Holiday, starring Diana Ross in her Oscar-nominated performance, “Singing, [Ross] does a fair imitation of the Holiday style. Acting, she does even more…[giving] an unselfconscious bravura performance.” – Richard Schickel. With Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. DCP. Approx. 144 min.

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