About Billie Holiday
Biography
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating…
Filmography17 films
Rank Billie Holiday's movies
Start with all movie credits in Favorite Billie Holiday Movies, then arrange them in your own order.
- The Magic Voices of Pop2021
- Billie2020
- The Apollo2019
- Billie Holiday: A Sensation2015
- Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas2013
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.12006
- Strange Fruit2002
- It's Black Entertainment2002
- Billie on Billie2002
- Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday1990
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got1985
- The Long Night of Lady Day1984
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975
- 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet1951
- New Orleans1947
- Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life1935
- Emperor Jones1933
- The Magic Voices of Pop2021
- Billie2020
- The Apollo2019