About this title: 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 turns to narcotics. The film takes several liberties with the 44-year ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Paramount
Date: 11/08/2005
UPC:097360837445
Description: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton. New. 1972 Run time: 143. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
UPC:097360837445
Description: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton, Jayne Kennedy, Isabel Sanford, Scatman... Very good in good packaging. 1972 Run time: 143. /aka/ Special Collector's Edition. read more
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