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- Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.
- Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday tells us the story of one of jazz's greatest singers ever. Although Billie Holiday lived a life filled with tragedy, this documentary focuses more on her achievements as a singer and her exceptional ability to convey emotions through her voice, rather than going into detail about her drug and alcohol addictions and destructive relationships. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday features several brilliant performances of Billie Holiday. Colleagues such as Carmen McRae, Annie Ross, Mal Waldron, Buck Clayton, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and Milt Gabler offer their first-hand perspectives.
- This movie is all about a normal guy called Billy Apples. He is a social drinker and sometimes lead singer of a band. While he is doing all of this, he still manages to bring up his teenage daughter. One night while sitting at home Billy finds that he has a talent! He finds that he is able to sing like his idol, 50's singer Billie Holiday. From there he is going places, from huge live performances to even cutting a hit record, but in the end he must make a choice between the life he has, and the life he once knew.
- A documentary about the legendary Jazz Singer Billie Holiday
- Billie Holiday was an American Jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning almost thirty years. Nicknamed Lady Day, she has a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Join as we celebrate this extraordinary influence with Ray Ellis and the Orchestra, with singers Maxine Weldon, Morgana King, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone, and Esther Phillips, presents a concert in the Hollywood Bowl.
- A childish gift causes tension between two siblings.
- 2011–TV Episode
- 1953–1957TV-PGTV Episode
- 2017–7.3 (17)TV EpisodeDirector Lee Daniels and the cast of 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' share how they knew Andra Day was destined to play the iconic jazz singer and why this portrayal might ruffle some feathers.
- Avatar Studios is launched, title and release date for the MCU's Spider-Man 3 and Loki are announced, trailer reaction for Pixar's "Luca" and review of "The United States vs. Billie Holiday".
- Episode: (2021)2005–TV EpisodeInterviews with the cast and filmmakers of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020), The Croods: A New Age (2020), The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021), The Marksman (2021) and Half Brothers (2020).
- 2015–7.9 (14)TV EpisodeAcademy Award nominee Andra Day reveals how playing Billie Holiday changed her forever. Find out why she initially said no to the role, how the costumes amplified her performance, and why she needed to go grocery shopping in character.
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- 2018– 40mPodcast EpisodeBillie Holiday makes a decision. The jazz singer will perform "Strange Fruit," the protest song about lynchings, no matter what happens to her-and no matter how many times law enforcement tells her to stay quiet. But that puts her in the crosshairs of one federal official, who uses any means necessary to silence Holiday.
- 2018–Podcast Episode
- Episode: (2021)2015–Podcast Episode
- 2011–Podcast Episode
- Episode: (2021)2017– 1h 2mPodcast EpisodeLarry is joined by Lee Daniels to talk about his new movie and why Daniels was drawn to the story of Holiday, the decision to cast Andra Day, a relative unknown and the difficulties that come with telling such a complex story.
- Episode: (2021)2017– 1h 17mPodcast EpisodeLarry is joined by Oscar nominated director Travon Free to discuss filming 'Two Distant Strangers' a midst the pandemic, how he got his start in the entertainment industry, and more.
- 2011– 28mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2021)2011– 41mPodcast Episode
- 2005– 1h 46mPodcast Episode
- 1970– 9mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2021)2021– 10mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2021)2021– 14mPodcast Episode
- 2018– 36mPodcast EpisodeBillie Holiday ascended from the rough and tumble streets of Baltimore and Harlem, through reform school, brothels, and Welfare Island, right to the top of the music game. Her childhood fascination with "whorehouse music" filled a void in her lost innocence, but she soon found a second stabilizer: Heroin. Just when her sensational "Strange Fruit" brought her to Columbia Records, her dependency on hard drugs landed her behind bars. Her mesmerizing voice ensnared listeners unlike any other jazz singer of her day, but in the end, it was narcotics that eventually ensnared Billie Holiday and sealed her fate. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners and includes descriptions of sexual assault.
- 2017– 1h 10mPodcast Episode
- 2018– 28mPodcast EpisodeJake tells the origins of his Billie Holiday fandom, shares his top 3 Billie tracks for anyone doing their first deep dive, and compares music documentaries vs music biopics.
- 1994– 11mPodcast Episode
- 2018– 38mPodcast Episode
- 2017– 1h 30mPodcast Episode
- 2017– 1h 4mPodcast Episode
- 2020– 1hPodcast EpisodeSpecial guest and Rare Beasts writer-director Billie Piper takes on the Grinches who called Nancy Meyers' modern yuletide classic an over-egged, rotten Christmas mess.