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She was the subject of a 1997 biography by Jackie Kay, reissued in February 2021 and featuring as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, read in an abridged version by the author. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In the 2015 HBO film Bessie , Queen Latifah portrays Smith, focusing on the struggle and transition of Smith's life and sexuality.
George Thomas Stahel Farmer (born 15 December 1989) [1] is a British entrepreneur, businessman and activist. [2] He is the former chairman of Turning Point UK and the former CEO of Parler and Parlement Technologies.
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" is a late-1920s blues song written by composer George Brooks and made famous by Bessie Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the song, a female narrator confesses the murder of a deceitful lover [ 3 ] and expresses her willingness to accept her punishment .
Douglas M. Parker (born May 25 1963) is a playwright known for biographical and reality-based plays. His works include BESSIE: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith (2005); Life on the Mississippi (2006); Declarations (2007); Life on the Mississippi, a musical based on his play (2008); Thicker Than Water (2009); and "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (2011).
Blues singer Bessie Smith recorded the song with piano accompaniment by Clarence Williams. [2] It was released as her first single (backed with "Gulf Coast Blues") and 780,000 copies were sold in the first six months. [3] One historian noted that "sales through the years plus the bootlegging of her discs must have made it a million seller". [4]
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Greenwald moved to Los Angeles in 1972, where he continued working as a theater director at the Mark Taper Forum. [8] He later launched a career as a director for television, establishing first Moonlight Productions [8] and then Robert Greenwald Productions (RGP), and began creating theatrical films, television movies, miniseries and documentaries with a distinct social and political sensibility.
Isabella Courtney and her father Shasa are living in London, where Shasa is the ambassador for South Africa.In what is, unknown to Isabella, a carefully planned operation, Isabella is seduced by Ramon de Santiago y Machado, an exiled Spanish nobleman who is both a close relative of Fidel Castro and a KGB operative known as Golden Fox.
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