TY  - ADVS
AU  - Mo'Nique,
AU  - Queen Latifah,
AU  - Cleveland,Christopher
AU  - Gilois,Bettina
AU  - Rees,Dee
AU  - Williams,Michael Kenneth
ED  - HBO Video (Firm)
TI  - Bessie
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - [Publisher not identified]
KW  - Smith, Bessie,
KW  - African American women singers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Drama
KW  - Women blues musicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Biographical films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical films
KW  - Made-for-TV movies
KW  - Musical films
N1  - DVD release of the 2015 motion picture; Special feature: Behind-the-scenes; Title from container; Widescreen; Music, Rachel Portman ; editor, Brian A. Kates ; director of photography, Jeffrey Jur; Queen Latifah, Michael Kenneth Williams, Mo'nique; Rating: TV-MA
N2  - Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today
ER  -