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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

7.620161h 30m
MusicDramaTV Movie

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.

Directed by Lonny Price

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Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald

Lady Day

Shelton Becton

Jimmy Powers

David Michael Cefalu

Audience Patron

Katie Lynn Cotaya

Waitress

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