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• Queen Latifah Triumphs in HBO's Bessie

  Portrays Legendary and Tragic Empress of the Blues

  

  By: Charles Giuliano - May 23rd, 2015

  As blues giant Bessie Smith in HBO's "Bessie" Queen Latifah gives the finest performance of her career. The drama is based on a 1972 book by Chris Albertson. During the 1920s she was the Empress of the Blues but during the great depression which followed in the 1930s, as she compellingly sang, "Nobody knows you when you're down and out."
  

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