New Billie Holiday biopic shows a hard life that bore Strange Fruit
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130 minutes, in cinemas April 22
Lady Sings the Blues, Hollywoodâs previous tilt at a Billie Holiday biopic in 1972, was produced by Berry Gordy and his company Motown who ensured that reality was thoroughly upstaged by the glamour of the filmâs star, an unbelievably slim and glossy Diana Ross.
Andra Day in The United States vs Billie Holiday.
Credit:Paramount Pictures
More recently a television movie concentrated on a performance Holiday gave four months before her death in 1959, but Lee Danielsâ new movie is the first clear-eyed look at her life that weâve seen on screen. And this time, thereâs plenty of grit with the glamour.
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