Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Type:MovieRuntime:1h 30m
Year:2016Language:EnglishRated:14+BIOGRAPHYDRAMAMUSIC
Director:Lonny Price
Writer:Lanie Robertson
Actors:Audra McDonaldShelton BectonGeorge Farmer
Stream at:HBO Max
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.