![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Diahann Carroll was seeing Sidney Poitier, and I was involved in a picture with Sidney so he brought her to a screening one night and I asked her,” Weston remembers. As Weston tells it, the legendary singer told him, “It’s not particularly true, but I think you’ll enjoy it.” Weston, looking to break into film producing, secured an 18-month option on the book for $5,000, which he would keep renewing for the next 13 years until the picture finally went before the cameras. Over the years, he tried to interest a number of actresses in taking on the formidable challenge of playing Holiday onscreen - among them, Diana Sands, Abbey Lincoln and Diahann Carroll. The saga actually began in 1957 at the Newport Film Festival, where Weston was serving as a publicist, when backstage he ran into Holiday, who suggested he take a look at her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, which had just been published. Hulu With Live TV Adds PBS, PBS Kids, Magnolia Network to Lineup ![]()
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