Story was good. Acting was not so good. Many historical mistakes with dialogue, costumes, and appearances. The hair styles are wrong for many of the men and some of the women. Details like this make the movie very poor in my opinion. One woman in the Cab Calloway scenes has glasses on and a hairdo that are more current than being from that era. These small details made it hard to enjoy. It told her life story but very thin on story line. Acting on some key parts was poor. The singing, which is almost half the movie, is very good but as far as it adding to storyline, it did not succeed. Definitely not winning any major awards.
