Film
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
United States- Director
- Matthew Seig
- Year
- 1990
Billie Holiday, jazz, singer
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday integrates film and video performances, recordings, words from her controversial autobiography (read by actress Ruby Dee) and interviews with artists who played with her (pianist Mal Waldron, trumpeter Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison), Milt Gabler (owner of Commodore and a producer at Decca), author Albert Murray and vocalists Carmen McRae and Annie Ross.
Top cast
Directed by
Matthew Seig
Written by
Robert O'Meally