Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
“It would be an empty world without the blues.”
6.6/ 10 1,286 votes 2020-11-25 1h 33m 6 popularity
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Director: George C. Wolfe
Viola Davis
Ma Rainey
Chadwick Boseman
Levee
Colman Domingo
Cutler
Glynn Turman
Toledo
Michael Potts
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Jeremy Shamos
Irvin
Jonny Coyne
Sturdyvant
Taylour Paige
Dussie Mae
