Who played Bessie Smith?
Category:
music and audio
rhythm and blues
Queen Latifah plays blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO movie Bessie. A Mississippi car accident in 1937 cut short the life of Bessie Smith. She was just 43 years old.
Beside this, who influenced Bessie Smith?
Once she began recording in the early 1950s, her commanding voice and her commitment to the blues carried the imprint of Smith to white rock and rollers Elvis Presley, who covered Thornton's "Hound Dog" in 1956, and Janis Joplin, who covered Thornton's "Ball 'n' Chain" in 1968.
Keeping this in view, who was Bessie Smith's husband?
Jack Gee m. 1923–1937
Overall, the movie stays true to the emotional core of Smith's story, but not necessarily to all the details as they happened. Bessie has been in development for more than two decades, giving Latifah plenty of time to get comfortable in Bessie Smith's shoes. Smith was originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee.