Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016)

March 12th, 20161h 30min

Music, Drama, TV Movie
76%

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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