Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

2016

Drama

Biography

TV Movie

Filmed before a live audience at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans, this movie tells Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. (HBO)

Directed by:

Lonny Price

Written by:

Lanie Robertson

Starring:

Audra McDonald Shelton Becton George Farmer Clayton Craddock Roxie

Genres:

Drama, Biography, Music

Country:

USA

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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

2016

Drama

Biography

TV Movie

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glumpy_99

Rated 22 Sep 2018

Filmed stage show is a first-rate presentation of McDonald's painful tour-de-force evocation of Billie Holiday's sad decline. Attempts to portray Holiday's experiences in context of the greater story of race relations in America is only intermittently successful, due to time constraints, which occasionally makes the drama seem a little forced and oppressive. Still a valuable record of McDonald's stunning performance, which must have been scalding to witness first hand.

Rated 22 Sep 2018

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