Bessie Smith
Know for: Acting
Born: 1894-04-15
Place of birth: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Also know as:
Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Blues (1993)
Rhine Record's 2-DVD documentary accompaniment to their Blues Masters CD series. Includes the only know footage of Leadbelly and rare footage others...
St. Louis Blues (1929)
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and...
The Story Of The Blues (2004)
The story of The Blues traces the four main traditions of blues music: Form Blues, Blues, Urban Blues and Blues Electric. The blues has evolved and...
Blues Masters (1999)
In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and...
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1989)
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this...
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993)
Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales,...
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
It's Black Entertainment (2002)
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...
STAIN (2024)
A distressed detective feels an overwhelming guilt after letting a killer get away.
Memories (2025)
The memories of a woman, condensed into four periods.