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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

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It would be an empty world without the blues.

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

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Director
George C. Wolfe
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  • recording studio
  • based on play or musical
  • singer
  • lesbian relationship
  • lgbt
  • blues music
  • black lgbt
  • trumpet player
  • 1920s