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Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 1, 1990

Runtime

0h 59m

Genres

Music

User Score

100%

Original Title

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

Director

Matthew Seig

Description

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.