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Sigue la historia sobre la famosa cantante de jazz Billie Holiday.Sigue la historia sobre la famosa cantante de jazz Billie Holiday.Sigue la historia sobre la famosa cantante de jazz Billie Holiday.
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Linda Lipnack Kuehl
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Billie Holiday
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
Sylvia Syms
- Self - Singer & Friend
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Tony Bennett
- Self - Singer & Friend
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
John Fagan
- Self - Cousin
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Mary Kane
- Self - Childhood Friend
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
- (as Mary 'Pony' Kane)
Skinny Davenport
- Self - Pimp
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Detroit Red
- Self - Dancer
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham
- Self - Entertainer
- (metraje de archivo)
- (as Pgimeat Markham)
Bessie Smith
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
Louis Armstrong
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
John Hammond
- Self - Music Producer
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Ruby Davies
- Self - Roommate
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Sandy Williams
- Self - Clarence's Bandmate
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Irene Kitchings
- Self - Friend
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Count Basie
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
Lester Young
- Self - Saxophonist
- (metraje de archivo)
- (voz)
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- CuriosidadesThis 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.
- ConexionesFeatures New Orleans (1947)
Reseña destacada
A hard life, an amazing legacy
Billie Holiday was supremely talented, lived a hard life, and had an unstable personality. She died from abuse of drink and drugs, aged just 44. This documentary is interesting as it contains candid interviews from those who knew her, conducted by a female journalist who was researching her life in the 1970s; her work never reached fruition as she died young herself, in what some of those close to her believe to have been suspicious circumstances. We don't really get any insight into the latter death; we do get a more interesting (though unpolished) insight into the singer's life, unfiltered by the hagiography that can spoil some films made too many years after the fact. The speed of Holiday's decline is tragic; it's clear she had problems of her own, but also that those around her (and the racist world she lived in) certainly made them worse. But the film does do justice to her brilliance; to this day, she pretty much defines what a jazz singer is, and she dared to call out racism too. It's definitely worth watching, even if jazz isn't your usual beat.
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- paul2001sw-1
- 14 mar 2021
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