Bessie Smith

Acting • AGE 43

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 r...

Acting

Memories

Music

2025

STAIN

Music

2024

The Story Of The Blues

Self (archive footage)

2004

It's Black Entertainment

Self (archive footage)

2002

A Huey P. Newton Story

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

Blues Masters

Self (archive footage)

1999

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

Self (archive footage)

1993

Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Blues

Self (archive footage)

1993

St. Louis Blues

Bessie - Battered Wife

1929