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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.

Director

George C. Wolfe

Year

Genre

Box Office

N/A

Production

Escape Artists,Mundy Lane Entertainment

Awards

Won 2 Oscars. 84 wins & 192 nominations total

Homepage

https://www.netflix.com/title/81100780

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Ma Rainey

Levee

Chadwick Boseman

Cutler

Toledo

Slow Drag

Irvin

Sturdyvant

Dussie Mae

Sylvester

Policeman

Band Singer

Quinn VanAntwerp

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Johanna Elmina Moise

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Ma Rainey's Dancer

LaWanda Hopkins

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Ma Rainey's Dancer

Catherine Foster

Laborer

Recording Studio Worker

David Barckhoff

Laborer

Tony Bazemore Jr.

Shop Owner

Gregory Bromfield

Laborer

James Ciesielski

1920's Migrant

Biker

Town Worker

Business Owner

Laborer

Looper

Sienna Jeffries

Chicago Worker

Concert Guest

Nathaniel Johnson

Audience Member

Taylor Allen Jones

Laborer

Laborer

Malik Abdul Khaaliq

Pedestrian

Gambler

Laborer

Laborer

Deli Worker

Businessman

Businessman

Laborer

Laborer

Patrick Raffaele

Delivery Boy

Teenager

DaJuan Manwell Rippy

Recording Studio Worker

Audience Member

Remington Sinclair

Train Station Passenger

Tent Scene Attendee

Hotel Patron

Tru Verret-Fleming

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Ma Rainey Levee Cutler

[running footsteps] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[running footsteps]

[distant singing] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[distant singing]

{\an8}-[people speaking indistinctly]
-[laughs] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

{\an8}-[people speaking indistinctly] -[laughs]

♪ My bell rang this morning ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ My bell rang this morning ♪

♪ My bell rang this morning ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ My bell rang this morning ♪

♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪

♪ Oooh… ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ Oooh… ♪

♪ Hmm… ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[crowd cheering] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[crowd cheering]

♪ I'm on my way ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ I'm on my way ♪

♪ Hey ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[horns honking] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[horns honking]

Testing, testing, one, two, three. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Testing, testing, one, two, three.

Heh. You should've heard Levee
at the club last night, Toledo. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Heh. You should've heard Levee at the club last night, ...

Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago.

Come on in. I'll get you fed
and ready to make some music. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Come on in. I'll get you fed and ready to make some mus...

What we got there, Toledo? - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

What we got there, Toledo?

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom One two you know what to do - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom One two you know what to do

Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma.
She gonna do what she wanna do. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma. She gonna do what...

You heard what the man told you. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

You heard what the man told you.

What I care about bad luck - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

What I care about bad luck

Oh. There you go. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Oh. There you go.

Like I said,
while I was waiting for the paddy wagon, - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Like I said, while I was waiting for the paddy wagon,

[Irvin] All right, Ma. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[Irvin] All right, Ma.

[Mel] She's late and already-- - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[Mel] She's late and already--

[playing piano] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[playing piano]

I know what I'm doing Let me handle him my way - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

I know what I'm doing Let me handle him my way

My mama… - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

There was my mama… - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

There was my mama…

She tried to fight 'em off. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

She tried to fight 'em off.

[chuckles sadly] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[chuckles sadly]

[inhales deeply] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[inhales deeply]

My daddy wasn't spooked up
by the white man. No, sir. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

My daddy wasn't spooked up by the white man. No, sir.

I can smile and say yessir to whoever I please - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

I can smile and say yessir to whoever I please

What you got? - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

What's the colored man
gonna do with himself? - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

What's the colored man gonna do with himself?

But first he's got to know
that he's a leftover. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

But first he's got to know that he's a leftover.

Levee, I know you had something
to do with this. Watch yourself. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Levee, I know you had something to do with this. Watch yours...

Cutler. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

-[bell dinging]
-[indistinct chatter] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

-[bell dinging] -[indistinct chatter]

What's all this shit about
"the boys in the band said"? - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

What's all this shit about "the boys in the band s...

And I want you to find somebody
to replace Levee when we get to Memphis. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

And I want you to find somebody to replace Levee when we get...

Ma. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

They don't care nothing about me - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

They don't care nothing about me

They back there right now
calling me all kinds of names. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

They back there right now calling me all kinds of names.

-I already got my fellas picked out.
-Mmm-hmm. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

-I already got my fellas picked out. -Mmm-hmm.

You get your own band and we'll see
if your red rooster know how to crow. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

You get your own band and we'll see if your red rooster...

[Dussie Mae] How you get so crazy? - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[Dussie Mae] How you get so crazy?

I never could stand no silence. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

I never could stand no silence.

This be an empty world without the blues. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

This be an empty world without the blues.

[Dussie Mae moans] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[Dussie Mae moans]

[knocking at door] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[knocking at door]

Okay, boys.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Okay, boys. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take ...

Take… - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma, can we just do it without the… - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma, can we just do it without the…

Fifteen minutes.
You hear me, Irvin? Fifteen minutes. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Fifteen minutes. You hear me, Irvin? Fifteen minutes.

Life ain't shit - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Life ain't shit

Did you turn your back - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Did you turn your back

[exhales] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[trumpet playing] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[trumpet playing]

♪ You wanna be my man ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ You wanna be my man ♪

Wonderful. We got that, boys. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Wonderful. We got that, boys.

Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care.
I'll go get my own band anyway. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care. I'll go ge...

You think I care about being fired?
I don't care. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

You think I care about being fired? I don't care.

[door rattling] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[door rattling]

[breathes deeply] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[breathes deeply]

[exhales] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mel will be out with your money
in a minute. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mel will be out with your money in a minute.

[door opens and shuts] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[door opens and shuts]

[door opens] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Irvin misunderstood me. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Irvin misunderstood me.

Send them to my address.
I'll get around to 'em. - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Send them to my address. I'll get around to 'em.

Please? - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

And you tell Sturdyvant, - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

And you tell Sturdyvant,

[Levee breathing heavily] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[Levee breathing heavily]

♪ You can swing it, you can bring it ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

♪ You can swing it, you can bring it ♪

[blues music playing] - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[blues music playing]

{\an8}♪ My bell rang this morning ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

{\an8}♪ My bell rang this morning ♪

{\an8}♪ I had the blues so bad ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

{\an8}♪ I had the blues so bad ♪

{\an8}♪ I felt like going on the mountain ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

{\an8}♪ I felt like going on the mountain ♪

{\an8}♪ I felt like going in the mountain ♪ - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

{\an8}♪ I felt like going in the mountain ♪

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom poster

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Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.

User Rating: 0.0 (0 ratings)

Director: George C. Wolfe

Writer: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson

Production: Escape Artists,Mundy Lane Entertainment

Genre: drama, music

Year: 2020

MetaScore: 87/100

ImdbRating: 6.9

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 18 Dec 2020

Awards: Won 2 Oscars. 84 wins & 192 nominations total

Homepage: https://www.netflix.com/title/81100780

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