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Be sure to watch Bessie tonight on HBO! Great performances and a great film from writer/director Dee Rees (Pariah). They don’t shy away from showing the queer aspects of both Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey’s lives. Queen Latifah better win all the awards for her amazing performance. Mo’Nique is back and better than ever. Khandi Alexander will break your heart. Michael Kenneth Williams gets to showcase that intensity we all love and Mike Epps is a rock. It’s just a damn good movie.
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Vanessa Bell Calloway, to the left of Angela Bassett, as Jackie, one of the many Ikettes over the years in the Ike and Tina Turner revue, in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993).
Vanessa was born in Cleveland and has 155 acting credits, from Tina Turner’s music video for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1984) to episodes of a mini-series now in production.
Her other notable credits include episodes of Falcon Crest and 227, Coming to America, episodes of Webster, China Beach, LA Law, A Different World (two episodes), a voice in Bebe’s Kids, Crimson Tide, episodes of Touched by an Angel, Moesha, The Parkers, and Dexter, Dragged Across Concrete, Harriet, Coming 2 America, 23 episodes of Shameless, and three episodes of This Is Us.
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner poses with The Ikettes in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). The Ikettes had three chart entries from 1962 to 1965. Peaches N Cream peaked at number 36 in 1965 and I’m Blue (The Gong Gong Song) was the biggest hit,, peaking at number 19 in 1962. All their songs were written and produced by Ike Turner.
