Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

7.5

/10

58mDocumentary Music

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues.Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox,... Read more

Starring Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey

Watch "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues" on Kanopy released in 1989. It's a documentary and music movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.