Lady Sings The Blues, lobbycard, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, 1972. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) Before the movie, there was the book; but before the book was the album the started it all.

‘Some guy just wrote a biography of me called Lady Sings the Blues. And most of it’s true, but a lot of it isn’t.’ I read the book and I said to her agent, ‘I want to make a movie out of it.

In her big-screen debut, 1972’s Lady Sings the Blues, Ross, 79 ... The producer turned to him, leaned in and said, “This is my movie. No worries. It's nice that you have an opinion.

Jay Weston, a veteran producer of Hollywood films including 1972’s “Lady Sings the Blues” starring Diana Ross and 1968’s “For Love of Ivy” starring Sidney Poitier, has died at the age ...

An actress and entertainer featured in the 1980 movie “The Blues Brothers ... films such as “The Ten Commandments” and “Lady ...

Although he wrote the music for one of Billie Holiday’s most renowned songs, “Lady Sings the Blues,” the work of pianist Herbie Nichols (1919-1963) is unduly obscure. He recorded only ...

Knopf. 368 pages. $32. Early on in Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues, she recalls the picaresque world of New York nightlife in the Thirties: Prohibition was on its last legs then. And ...

Dalyce Curry, a retired actress whose credits included being an extra in The Blues Brothers, The Ten Commandments and Lady Sings the Blues, died due to the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles ...