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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

2016TV-141h 30m
BiographyDramaMusic
7.8 / 10(606)

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.

Rated
TV-14
Runtime
1h 30m
Released
2016

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Release year: 2016

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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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