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Mahogany

Play trailer Poster for Mahogany PG Released Oct 8, 1975 1h 49m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Struggling Chicago fashion design student Tracy (Diana Ross) goes from rags to riches when a chance meeting with hotshot fashion photographer Sean (Anthony Perkins) in the department store where she works leads to a runway life as a model in Rome. Tracy's overnight success and strong ambitions bring her professional success as a designer, but her diva antics may destroy her relationship with social activist Brian (Billy Dee Williams), as well as her respect in the fashion world.
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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Even in its own recycled-tinsel terms, Mahogany is a series of missed opportunities. Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online With fashion and a passionate love story as a backdrop to a wonderfully acted narrative, Mahogany is simply fabulous. Sep 9, 2017 Full Review Dan Callahan Slant Magazine Even a charming last-minute happy ending can't quite redeem all the mess and unidentified dread. Rated: 2/4 May 1, 2007 Full Review Tom Myles Gay Community News (Boston) The movie has a few good things going for it once you exclude the acting, directing, plot, and theme. Sep 15, 2022 Full Review Althea Fonville New Pittsburgh Courier If one wants to see Diana "do her thing," go see Mahogany. Dec 13, 2021 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com ...slick, wonderfully vapid studio confection of the kind that used to be fodder for Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, Mahogany isn't a good/bad movie, it's a great bad movie... Rated: 3/5 Feb 19, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ed . Slick, silly stuff but an interesting Diana, as always (NYT) Enjoyable trifle that Diana should have deferred until completing another higher quality film or two. Diana Ross made an impressive acting debut in Lady Sings the Blues and then followed up with the lightweight Mahogany. Had she instead found another critical favorite, she would have had more latitude in putting out a movie like Mahogany. Or, if Mahogany were better constructed, Diana might have been the 70s urban version of Doris Day's early 60s classics. Instead, she lost momentum and wasn't taken seriously as an actress. The Wiz, a few years later, certainly didn't help. She was roasted for vainly portraying a Dorothy that, though noted as older than Judy's version, could no way be convincingly accepted by any seeing film patron. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/25 Full Review luis b High camp as Ross sizzles on the silver screen! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Honestly, Mahogany is truly a nice change from the traditional blaxploitation of the 1970s. With a strong cast, and a fairytale plot I would suggest this film to anyone. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Didn't like it at all. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The best movie song ever sung: Do You Know Where You're Going To?! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Do You Know Where you're going to? Do you like the things? That life is showing you Where are you going to? Do you know? Do you get? What you're hoping for? When you look behind you There's no open doors What are you hoping for? Do you know? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Berry Gordy

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Diana Ross

Tracy

Billy Dee Williams

Brian

Anthony Perkins

Sean

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Christian Rosetti

Beah Richards

Florence

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Synopsis Struggling Chicago fashion design student Tracy (Diana Ross) goes from rags to riches when a chance meeting with hotshot fashion photographer Sean (Anthony Perkins) in the department store where she works leads to a runway life as a model in Rome. Tracy's overnight success and strong ambitions bring her professional success as a designer, but her diva antics may destroy her relationship with social activist Brian (Billy Dee Williams), as well as her respect in the fashion world.
Director
Berry Gordy
Producer
Rob Cohen, Jack Ballard
Screenwriter
John Byrum
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount
Rating
PG
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 8, 1975, Original
Release Date (DVD)
May 1, 2007
Runtime
1h 49m
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