The Amazing True Story Behind Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[@denko3203]

Let me just say that Viola deserves the Oscar for this. Such a performance!

[@msware0104]

Yes, I just watched it tonight for the first time. I was sorry it didn’t last long.

[@tonisumblin2719]

Viola Davis so talented it’s scary. I can’t separate the actress from the character. She’s so good.

[@alessandrodamiani1867]

I loved this film. It should have been nominated for best picture and adapted screenplay. Still hoping Chadwick Boseman will win a posthumous Oscar with all my ❤

[@Daemon3667]

I thought it was one of the most riveting provocative and emotionally challenging movie depicting Afro American music heritage I’ve ever seen. Literally moved me from laughter to tears!

[@davianwht5203]

"Maaa belll raaaaang this muunin didn't knoooow which waaaaay to gooooo." I still sing this when the blues hit.

[@audreyhill9105]

Ma Rainy set the blues bar and lived like a black woman in power.

[@bally_malone8]

Really love Viola Davis in this role, great movie / story / music / play. Ma Rainey's music is a lifeforce all its own...a beautiful gift

[@scottsummers4234]

Viola and Chadwick are getting those Oscars!

[@hattyburrow716]

My father bought me my first Bessie Smith records when I was 10, a three album set and I loved it. This was in 1967, in the U.K. in a town in Essex. I adored it, still love this female style of blues.

[@Bribrig4l]

It was a good movie but the ending was sudden and kinda unfinished. To me

[@tonnykhoo6704]

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[@yolandaturner417]

Fabulous Film and Cast!! I greatly enjoyed seeing Ma Rainey being brought back to life through Viola Davis. And being a Blues singer as well it gave me more inspiration to pursue my passion. I’ve been in Love with Blues since I was a little girl and I still am. Many thanx to all my Brothas and Sistas of Blues past, present and future.. I love you always! 👑🎙🎸

[@theylied1776]

Here's a fun fact, the first narrator for this movie, at 0:13 in this video, Glynn Turman, was the first actor cast to be Han Solo by George Lucas for Star Wars. But, 20th Century Fox Executives, in 1976 did not want a black lead. So, George Lucas was forced to recast the role of Han Solo.

[@marloesss10]

Another fun fact: Glynn Turman portrayed Nate Lahey sr. on the tv show How to get away with murder, in which Viola Davis was the lead.

[@hereforit2347]

That’s terrible. 🤬

[@hereforit2347]

“Fun” for who? 😐

[@hereforit2347]

And James Earl Jones was uncredited as the voice of Darth Vader. He MADE that character!!

[@bironjames9948]

Guess he got back at the with Lando calrissean

[@princedagawdd4377]

Viola is a force to be wrecking with she capture you in to her character

[@meka7777]

This is my first time watching this movie today!! This film deserved that Oscar. It was too short is it that kind of film that makes you want more.

[@Qui3tMon3y]

Chadwick deserved the Oscar .. he’s the true shining star in this film

[@Daemon3667]

I thought Viola and Bosman both should have won oscars for they’re amazing portrayal’s!

[@koinakya1104]

i agree !!

[@lizc6393]

Viola absolutely deserved it. I was shocked and angry that she didn't get it.

[@henryschaafsma2362]

Great video!

[@rosariofranciscotavaresbui8464]

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[@ParsonsGreen-g8j]

they still go through this today.

[@glitterhoney]

viola davis is everything

[@justineves3588]

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[@yitang8740]

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[@latanyafrancois6108]

We are still living in the crazy time's and they paved the way for us to be heard and thank God for that but we need more movie's like this God rest the souls whom step up

[@islewait6107]

Only "Ma!"👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@barbarahering484]

I just watched it today , 2024, I found it dark , not what I was expecting , it was easy to see what the movie was portraying . That part I'm sure was accurate. The movie itself was too short to get an overall gist of what happened prior to the scenes that were shown. The music was great but it played a small part in comparison to what was going on with the band. I really thought it had two themes and I would have preferred it to be just about her. I give it a thumbs up .

[@imagrl18]

| it's the mispronouncing of 'Shug' at 9:23 that took me out...ya'll couldn't find a clip of someone saying her name?

[@hereforit2347]

C’mon, somebody! 😠

[@slayergamers9993]

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[@jeanettesdaughter]

Viola Davis is a typhoon, an avalanche, a monsoon, a force of nature. What can’t she do on stage or screen⁉️

[@jaspersmommy1347]

One glaring mistake in Glynn Turman's introduction. Paramount Records was NOT in Chicago. It was in Port Washington, Wisconsin and produced about 25% of all "race" records during this period. The play can be forgiven for taking liberties, a documentary cannot.

[@fonosmith1930s]

Paramount Records didn't have a recording studio in Wisconsin until 1930. They recorded Ma Rainey and others in Chicago recording studios. They also had recordings made elsewhere, e.g.,Ma Rainey had two record sessions in New York City in October 1924, otherwise, all her records were made in Chicago. Mayo Williams was Paramount Records recording director in Chicago, and he was African American, a black man. There is apparently no description or documentation about the c.December 1927 recording session, and that's led to people with their own agendas making up whatever accounts they want. The film didn't claim to be a documentary, did it?

[@lamarbrown3531]

Actors : Last Films, Movies,last Appearance in film Included: Chadwick Boseman -MA Rainey Black Bottom(2020), Black Panther II(2022); Thomas Jefferson Byrd - freedom path (TBA), Carol Sutton - Freedom path (TBA),

[@hereforit2347]

I think the play is largely male-oriented and focused more on the character played by Chadwick Boseman than on Ma Rainey. His character was more fleshed out and there wasn’t much about who Ma Rainey really was or her story.

[@ToniWellons]

It’s wasn’t a biopic. At was based on one experience in her career

[@hereforit2347]

@@ToniWellons: Who asked you? Did I say it was a biopic? The play was nevertheless named for her, was it not? Moreover, the movie was trash. I said what I said. Get over it.

[@ephin3242]

@@hereforit2347 bro you posted on a public forum lol. Nobody asked you, nobody asked me, nobody asked him. That’s how comment sections work.

[@leighcarson-braun4874]

You are so right. It should of been more about her. I’m curious where she went next after getting in the car. Would love to see the rest of her life story by Viola Davis.

[@jeanettesdaughter]

I liked this treatment. It touched on that tension in the arts. It happens that the new kids on the block are always a problem. Jazz was a problem; Rock and roll was a problem ; hip hop a huge problem. I liked seeing how she protected her career; I liked his determination to move the bases. The industry hasn’t changed all that much, nor the struggles of the artists. Ma was tough and smart but she still got cheated out of her royalties. But it’s her name that rings out not the cheats.

[@aishahratti1692]

Great movie 🎥

[@queenbluntressspeaks2695]

Viola is simply beautiful ❤

[@hereforit2347]

The raccoon eye makeup, the Barnum and Bailey rouge . . . why, why. WHYYYY???🤬

[@lizc6393]

Unfortunately an accurate representation of stage makeup at the time.

[@hereforit2347]

@@lizc6393: Absolutely NOT. If you look up photos of her she looked nothing like that nor did her makeup. My great-grandparents were in show business and were most active around the turn of the century. Neither of them had on makeup like that in any of their publicity photos.

[@mssweets6119]

Chad’s character is absolutely crude in this movie.

[@ThabangMajola-eg5rv]

Viola hats off

[@s.o.q2914]

Good Movie

[@lamarbrown3531]

The mother of the blues drama

[@ashleydowney1222]

Still haven't seen this movie yet. Not sure if will end up watching it. I have heard people say that Viola was too beautiful to play Ma Rainey.

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[@kelliewhyte_85]

Can you do scariest animal encounters please??????

[@sunflowerz54]

I love Viola Davis ever since she was in the film series w Tom Selleck!!

[@Jujulocs88]

Blind Blake 🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸

[@hereforit2347]

Why in the name of all that is holy was it necessary to make Viola Davis look like a hot greasy mess with eye makeup running down her face like she’d been in a prizefight or crying uncontrollably for three days straight? Completely uncalled for. 😕

[@ToniWellons]

Because that’s how Ma Rainey looked back then

[@hereforit2347]

@@ToniWellons: Uh . . . no she did NOT. 😂😂

[@hereforit2347]

@Cherry Red: I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve seen several photos of the real Ma Rainey and in NONE of them was she sweaty, oily, greasy, unkempt, or had runny, overdone, messy makeup. To depict her that way was disrespectful, slanderous, and unnecessary.

[@hereforit2347]

@Cherry Red: So all overweight women’s makeup is smeared and running down their faces in the summertime?? Girl, bye. 👋🏾😂

[@Keyee1]

Viola Davis MADE this film! She was the heart and soul of this film! Awesome tribute, but ... THIS 'NARRATOR VOICE' IS URKSOME!! Her voice and mispronounciations are ethnicity insensitive. WHY was this GENERIC VOICE chosen for THIS piece?! MA RAINEY was an historic African American pioneer. The sound of this choice was not right at all, for this piece! That's what I said, and I'm sticking to it!

[@Sofia-qn6fs]

Viola is a maarwe performer

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[@gregorykline3080]

I love Mo Joe can you do something in 1962

[@MarissaDean-m9p]

Viola🥹🥹🥹🥹😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@lamarbrown3531]

The true Facts Lee daniels The butler

[@nicciberriman3032]

The narrator is Nate’s dad

[@jamesboswell1804]

Black Hollywood has been doing what p Diddy did since the beginning

[@dogydog247]

First

[@manzeve1218]

Oh yall gonna hate me.. Sorry..I didn't see Ma Rainy..I saw Viola Davis playing dress up...the praise comes from the desperation of the studios to award people of color. I couldn't even get through the horrible performance

[@manzeve1218]

@Cherry Red agreed

[@hereforit2347]

They’re gonna hate me even more. Viola Davis cannot ACT!

[@manzeve1218]

@@hereforit2347 Ok..your entitled to your opinion. She's had some good performances but to protray a living person requires a certain type of acting..neither her or Will Smith can shake their own characters to emerse themselve in another character..like Queen Latifah. That is the specialty of actors like leo dicaprio or Johnny Depp. I'm a writer so Iook at these movies objectively.even though I love the actor personally

[@hereforit2347]

@@manzeve1218: What does your being a writer have to do with it? A lot of writers stink and their “work” is garbage. Being a writer doesn’t automatically make you objective. And none of the stars you named are very good actors. I’m missing your point.

[@hereforit2347]

I don’t think the studios are “desperate” to award people of color. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just think Viola Davis’s acting skills are much overrated. She’s got presence and good energy, but she’s not a great actress.

[@pamelabrown3058]

The death of Chadwick Boseman GOD is not mocked 🤫

[@Qui3tMon3y]

Chadwick deserved the Oscar .. he’s the true shining star in this film