Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “Lady Sings the Blues”
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Deron Dalton
Billy Dee Williams
Williams was spotted by Weston in an off-Broadway production of Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. In the production, Williams played a smooth-talking hustler and afterward Weston set out to find this good-looking actor with no agent or no address to play Holiday’s husband Louis McKay. Randomly, at a supermarket, Weston spotted Williams again in a dashiki and asked him to attend a Hollywood party with the big dogs. Williams did, and although liked, he was deemed too young. Weeks later he grew a mustache and requested a screen test, which he did with Ross. The next day she told Weston he’s the guy.
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