Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016)
• March 12th, 2016 • 1h 30min
Music, Drama, TV Movie
Overview
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.
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