Home Lifestyles Queen Latifah inhabits a blues legend in HBO biopic 'Bessie'

Frank Masi

Entertainment, Lifestyles

May 12, 2015

Queen Latifah inhabits a blues legend in HBO biopic ‘Bessie’

NEW YORK (AP) — Many viewers will come to the HBO biopic "Bessie" with scant knowledge of its subject, blues legend Bessie Smith.

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