
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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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as Bessie - Battered Wife
1929

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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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as Self (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001

as Self (archive footage)
1999

as Self (archive footage)
1993

as Self (archive footage)
1993

as Bessie - Battered Wife
1929
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