Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Linda Lipnack Kuehl
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Billie Holiday
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sylvia Syms
- Self - Singer & Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Tony Bennett
- Self - Singer & Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
John Fagan
- Self - Cousin
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Mary Kane
- Self - Childhood Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
- (as Mary 'Pony' Kane)
Skinny Davenport
- Self - Pimp
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Detroit Red
- Self - Dancer
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham
- Self - Entertainer
- (archive footage)
- (as Pgimeat Markham)
Bessie Smith
- Self
- (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Hammond
- Self - Music Producer
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Ruby Davies
- Self - Roommate
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Sandy Williams
- Self - Clarence's Bandmate
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Irene Kitchings
- Self - Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Count Basie
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Lester Young
- Self - Saxophonist
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
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- Writer
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- TriviaThis documentary is based on the same research by Linda Lipnack Kuehl that the earlier documentary, Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990) is based on. Kuehl died before completing her book about Billie Holiday. Her death was ruled a suicide, although family members believe she may have been murdered.
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Too focused on this woman who meant to write a bio before she died, not enough focus on BILLIE!!
I don't know whether it's interesting or not that this intended writer of a bio on Billie - starting out just because she was a fan - like the rest of us - is white, Jewish woman but the amount of time this docu/biopic spends on the writer, who never completed the work before dying, is ridiculous and uninteresting. Way, Way too much screen time devoted to this other woman's life - which, when you've got footage and interviews of and about LADY DAY BILLIE HOLIDAY - it's mind-boggling to devote so much time on this one woman's attempts to write about Billie. Very odd style and underwhelming - which only left me desperately wanting to see and hear more of Billie and much less of this other distracting stuff. Badly done. R.I.P. TO THE LATE, GREAT BILLIE HOLIDAY.
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- gabriellekatz
- Jan 6, 2021
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- Gross worldwide
- $202,931
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
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