What is Lady Sings the Blues / Mahogany about?

Name: Lady Sings the Blues / Mahogany
Genre: Drama,Music/Performing Arts

LADY SINGS THE BLUES, 1972, Paramount, 144 min. Dir. Sidney J. Furie. Billie’s (Diana Ross) childhood rape and being forced into prostitution, her witnessing of Klan lynchings, her tragic descent into drug addiction that caused her premature decline and death, are all here. Richard Pryor is Piano Man, her doomed partner in not only the blues but in drugs, and Billy Dee Williams is Louis McKay, her third husband. MAHOGANY, 1975, Paramount, 109 min. An uncredited Tony Richardson started directing this guilty pleasure soap opera but was swiftly replaced by Motown head and producer Berry Gordy himself when their visions collided. The result is a schizophrenic melange of female empowerment saga. Diana Ross is a hardworking office girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. The next thing she knows she’s catapulted into supermodel stardom by bisexual photographer Anthony Perkins. Soon she’s rich, powerful and sampling all the decadent joys of a jaded European aristocracy.

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What is Lady Sings the Blues / Mahogany about?: LADY SINGS THE BLUES, 1972, Paramount, 144 min. Dir. Sidney J. Furie. Billie’s (Diana Ross) childhood rape and being forced into prostitution, her witnessing of Klan lynchings, her tragic descent into drug addiction that caused her premature decline and death, are all here. Richard Pryor is Piano Man, her doomed partner in not only the blues but in drugs, and Billy Dee Williams is Louis McKay, her third husband.

MAHOGANY, 1975, Paramount, 109 min. An uncredited Tony Richardson started directing this guilty pleasure soap opera but was swiftly replaced by Motown head and producer Berry Gordy himself when their visions collided. The result is a schizophrenic melange of female empowerment saga. Diana Ross is a hardworking office girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. The next thing she knows she’s catapulted into supermodel stardom by bisexual photographer Anthony Perkins. Soon she’s rich, powerful and sampling all the decadent joys of a jaded European aristocracy.