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The Quietus | Film | Film Features | More Than An Emblem: The United States Vs. Billie Holiday


Soma Ghosh
, February 26th, 2021 11:26
Lee Daniels gorgeous star-spangled biopic of Billie Holiday honours the incomparable artist, but risks reducing her to a shiny, heroic emblem more than the harsh-throated contradiction she was, finds Soma Ghosh
Norman Granz writes on the liner of
Songs For Distingué Lovers (1957) that Billie Holiday “happened to some songs”. From the moment she happened, mainstream culture has tried to explain away the transgressions that make Billie the seminal godmother of RnB queens and punks alike.
This 1959 obituary by Time magazine sums up the Establishment’s begrudging awe:
Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life. Born of indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she stubbornly nursed her resentment …. ....

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Andra Day delivers haunting performance as an icon in The United States vs Billie Holiday trailer


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Don t you know who this is? asks Lyonne, who plays movie star and Billie s lover Tallulah Bankhead, as she and Day s Billie Holiday pour over a selection of jewels.
She was thinking of something more special, Lyonne adds, as Day sells her portrayal with an adjustment of her fur shawl and a perfectly strung out delivery: I m downright flashy, you know?
Civil Rights icon: The 36-year-old stars as the titular jazz singer in the untold story of her 1939 song Strange Fruit, which protested the lynchings of Black Americans, making her a target of the FBI
Talented ensemble: She stars alongside Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund and Natasha Lyonne in the film, which premieres February 26 on the streaming platform ....

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