Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

03/01/1990

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0hr 59min

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Music

Billie Holiday, jazz, singer

STORY

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday integrates film and video performances, recordings, words from her controversial autobiography (read by actress Ruby Dee) and interviews with artists who played with her (pianist Mal Waldron, trumpeter Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison), Milt Gabler (owner of Commodore and a producer at Decca), author Albert Murray and vocalists Carmen McRae and Annie Ross.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Billie Holiday

    Director

  • Matthew Seig

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English