Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a ... Read allFollows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 12 wins & 25 nominations total
Warren 'Slim' Williams
- Bobby Tucker
- (as Slim Williams)
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- TriviaThe songwriter of "Strange Fruit", Abel Meeropol, and his wife, adopted and raised the sons of Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for treason on June 19, 1953.
- GoofsAt 36:33, an elderly couple of Chinese are speaking standard Mandarin in a restaurant presumably in Harlem. However, Mandarin speakers would have been extremely rare in New York or anywhere else beyond Northern China at that time and for several decades afterwards. Any Chinese in New York and the rest of the States and Europe would have been speaking Cantonese, Hokkien, or some other Southern Chinese dialect, with the exception of the wealthier Shanghainese, who had their own dialect until very recently.
- Quotes
Billie Holiday: You know, the people that are hardest on me are my own race. I need help; not jail time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Tom Holland/Andra Day (2021)
- SoundtracksPrologue I & II
Written, Produced and Performed by Salaam Remi
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Amazing acting, bad production
I have been a fan of Billie 'Lady Day' Holiday for the majority of my life, and I thought that this movie didn't necessarily depict her life, instead it primarily focused on the government and Billie Holiday due to her drug abuse. I thought that the film depicted her in a pretty bad light, rather than depicting the amazing impact that she had on the world during the civil rights movement in the US as well as impacting the music industry, exploring the important affects and terrible, toxic environment within the industry. However, I did think that Andra Day, who played Billie Holiday, gave an amazing performance of the artist. The performances of the actors and actresses was amazing, all of them combined as they showed the raw, intimate relations between the people. However the major problem with the movie was how they depicted her life and had it primarily surrounding her drug addiction.
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- camillaelmstrom
- May 31, 2021
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- Also known as
- Billie
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- Montreal, Québec, Canada(location)
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- Gross worldwide
- $1,312,432
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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