Bessie Smith

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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

8

Gender

Female

Birthday

1894-04-15

Deathday

1937-09-26 (43 years old)

Place of Birth

Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Bessie Smith

Biography

Bessie Smith was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists.

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Acting

2004
The Story Of The Blues as Self (archive footage)
2002
It's Black Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
Blues Masters as Self (archive footage)
1993
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music as Self (archive footage)
1993
Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Blues as Self (archive footage)
1989
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues as Self (archive footage)
1929
St. Louis Blues as Bessie - Battered Wife

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2025
Memories as Music
2024
STAIN as Music
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