She runs away to her mother Sadie, who sets up a job cleaning for another brothel in the Harlem section of New York. When she returns to her aunt's house, she is home alone and is raped by a man who followed her home from the brothel. In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel in Baltimore. Billie Holiday, is arrested on a drug charge. In 1936 New York City, Eleanora Fagan, a.k.a. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1973, including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diana Ross. Diana Ross, in her feature film debut, portrayed Holiday, alongside a cast including Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. It was produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney J.
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