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Lady Sings the Blues : Louis Leaves Billie

After Billie (Diana Ross) breaks her promise to stay off of drugs, Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams) leaves her.

Louis Leaves Billie

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beat, emotion, beat, event, beat, general, close-up, long take, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, anempathetic, pan, sound effects, tilt, tracking shot, two-shot, zoom-in

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Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man

"Louis Leaves Billie" in Lady Sings the Blues. Directed by Sidney J. Furie, Weston Productions, 1972, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2695

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