本片主要介绍黑人女歌手比莉·荷莉黛的生平故事,是一部“历尽沧桑一美人"式的文艺歌唱大悲剧。片中对毒品之为害描写甚为深刻,但对女主角吸毒原因则交代得简略,未能拍出深度。在片中饰演比莉·荷莉黛的戴安娜·罗丝是“至尊者"合唱团的女歌手,她首次亮相银幕即表演得十分落力,她因此被提名奥斯卡金像奖。另外比利狄·威廉斯、李察·普瑞尔等的表演也不俗,片中配乐由米契利·格兰创作。
- 类型: 剧情, 音乐
- 工作室: Weston Productions, Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sidney J. Furie Productions
- 关键词: new york city, brothel, jazz singer or musician, mental breakdown, biography, addiction, rape victim, tour bus, racism, based on memoir or autobiography, period drama, drug overdose, music history, lynching, dying young, black singer, withdrawal, heroin addict, nightclub singer, blues music, billie holiday, harlem, new york city, carnegie hall, rise to fame, wayward girl, death of a musician, music tour, 1940s, somber, 1930s, following one's dream, desperate, former prostitute, period film, straight jacket, cautionary, black woman, cultural icon, woman's story, disheartening, powerful, woman musician, deep south racism, kkk rally
- 投: Diana Ross, 比利·迪·威廉姆斯, 理查德·普赖尔, 詹姆斯 T·卡拉汉, Paul Hampton, Sid Melton