Billie
- 2019
- Tous publics
- 1h 38m
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6.9/10
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Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
Linda Lipnack Kuehl
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Billie Holiday
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sylvia Syms
- Self - Singer & Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Tony Bennett
- Self - Singer & Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
John Fagan
- Self - Cousin
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Mary Kane
- Self - Childhood Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
- (as Mary 'Pony' Kane)
Skinny Davenport
- Self - Pimp
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Detroit Red
- Self - Dancer
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham
- Self - Entertainer
- (archive footage)
- (as Pgimeat Markham)
Bessie Smith
- Self
- (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Hammond
- Self - Music Producer
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Ruby Davies
- Self - Roommate
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Sandy Williams
- Self - Clarence's Bandmate
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Irene Kitchings
- Self - Friend
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Count Basie
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Lester Young
- Self - Saxophonist
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
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- Writer
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- TriviaThis 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.
- ConnectionsFeatures Nouvelle-Orléans (1947)
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I don't know why so many here are mad that the film talked about Linda. I also don't know anybody needed this film to understand Billie's music. This film is about these amazing interviews that Linda took years to get, and in the process, probably died for them. Without Linda's obsession, there would be no film. I am just so grateful that she did this before all these people who personally knew Billie died. And it sounded like many of these folks were glad to have their voices heard to set the record straight. Linda instinctively understood the cultural importance of these accounts from the very mouths of people who had to endure Jim Crow crap with Billie. I loved the weaving of Billie's radio interview and her London TV appearences throughout. I also loved the amount of time this spent on her childhood, and her relationship with the songs Strange Fruit and Don't Explain.
- audioliquor
- Feb 18, 2021
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- Gross worldwide
- $202,931
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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