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HBO has a certain level of perfection that viewers expect it to live up to, and the network hit it out of the park with its latest film. Bessie won the 2015 Outstanding Television Movie Emmy, as ...

Queen Latifah’s Bessie, a HBO biopic about legendary blues singer Bessie Smith, nabbed four trophies, including Outstanding Television Movie, at the 2015 Emmy Awards on Sunday (Sept. 20).

HBO’s biopic of blues singer Bessie Smith was an over 20-years-in-the-making project. It wasn’t until Pariah writer-director Dee Rees reworked the Bessie script and eventually landed the helming gig ...

A story not known to many of the Kardashian-obsessed generation, Bessie Smith's incredible legacy was brought to our TV a few days ago on HBO, and along with it came awesome Bessie Smith makeup ...

Somebody over at HBO let Mama Pope from “Scandal” sneak into Bessie Smith’s house. In “Bessie,” HBO’s biopic of jazz legend Bessie Smith, we see Bessie’s (Queen Latifah) painful and confused ...

QUEEN LATIFAH’S desire to star in a Bessie Smith biopic is nearly 20 years old, dating back to her screen test for the role in 1996. Snippets of those screen tests can be seen in the extras for ...

This weekend, HBO’s Bessie Smith biopic made its debut on TV and fans were treated to a same-sex love scene with Queen Latifah and her female cast mates, which have been getting major attention since ...