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Where to Watch Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
It would be an empty world without the blues.
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.
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- Viola Davis as Ma Rainey
- Chadwick Boseman as Levee
- Colman Domingo as Cutler
- Glynn Turman as Toledo
- Michael Potts as Slow Drag