BESSIE MAY SNELLGROVE Lake Station, Indiana Bessie May Snellgrove, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, July 17, 2007. She was born on July 7, 1932 in Luverne, Alabama, the daughter of Claty and Lilla York ...
Queen Latifah turns in a courageous tour de force — complete with unabashed nudity — as the hardscrabble, sexually fluid woman who became blues legend Bessie Smith in a new HBO film debuting Saturday.