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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

(2016)

March 12, 2016• 1h 30m
76%
TMDB Score

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.

Lonny Price

Director

Top Billed Cast

AM

Audra McDonald

Lady Day

SB

Shelton Becton

Jimmy Powers

DMC

David Michael Cefalu

Audience Patron

KLC

Katie Lynn Cotaya

Waitress

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