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2016

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Directed by Lonny Price

It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 months before her death.

Duration

1h 30m

Released

March 12, 2016

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7.5

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Cast4

  • Audra McDonald
  • Shelton Becton
  • David Michael Cefalu
  • Katie Lynn Cotaya

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