In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel in Baltimore where she is raped. She runs away to her mother, who sets up a job cleaning for another brothel in the Harlem section of New York. The brothel is run by an arrogant, selfish owner who pays Billie very little money.
Genre: Musical, Drama, Biography
Actor: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor
Director: Sidney J Furie
Country: United States