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Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine.
Dec 4, 2020 · Billie: Directed by James Erskine. With Linda Lipnack Kuehl, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Syms, Tony Bennett. Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- James Erskine
- 2020-12-04
Sep 8, 2020 · She started a notable rebellion singing “Strange Fruit” which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, Billie is ...
- 2 min
- 288.7K
- Greenwich Entertainment
Directed by James Erskine. She sang the truth, she paid the price. ‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Before her mysterious death in 1978, Lipnack Kuehl had taped over 200 hours of interviews.
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- Altitude Film Entertainment
- James Erskine
Dec 4, 2020 · Billie is the far and away the most definitive Billie Holiday biography ever put on screen, a film that celebrates her magic and examines the demons that haunted her, chemical and human.
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- James Erskine
- Not Rated
Sep 5, 2019 · They crack up!” That’s Tony Bennett, in voiceover, musing aloud about the fate of the subject of “Billie,” an absorbing new documentary about master jazz singer Billie Holiday that had its...
In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life.
