The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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2021
2h 11m
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English
Music, Drama, History
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Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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Cast
Billie Holiday
Jimmy Fletcher
Harry Anslinger
Reginald Lord Devine
Miss Freddy
Mrs. Fletcher
Tallulah Bankhead
Louis McKay
Roslyn
Agent Williams
Lester 'Prez' Young
John Levy
Agent Carter
Sadie
Joe Guy
James Monroe
Carl The Drummer
Joe Glaser
Lucille
Working Class Woman
Working Class Man
Velva
Bobby Tucker
Auditioning Sax Player
Congressman JP Thomas
Directed By: Lee Daniels
Written By: Suzan-Lori Parks (Screenplay)
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Saint Pauly
/10 3 years ago
>I swear I won’t call no copper
>If I’m beat up by my poppa
>Ain’t nobody’s business if I do
This complex and very problematic lyric is the essence of Billie Holiday and what was missing from _The United States vs. Billie Holiday_.
Which is not Andra Day’s fault. Her port More
>If I’m beat up by my poppa
>Ain’t nobody’s business if I do
This complex and very problematic lyric is the essence of Billie Holiday and what was missing from _The United States vs. Billie Holiday_.
Which is not Andra Day’s fault. Her port More
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4 years ago
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Even though I love listening to jazz, I've never been to a concert or a club specific to this type of music. Following this train of thought, I didn't know anything about Billie Holiday's real-life s More
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Even though I love listening to jazz, I've never been to a concert or a club specific to this type of music. Following this train of thought, I didn't know anything about Billie Holiday's real-life s More
Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
4 years ago
Jazz musician Billie Holiday is a legend; one of the greatest musicians of all time. Most music fans can name their favorite Holiday tune, but none caused more controversy than her song about black lynching, “Strange Fruit.” Screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks builds her story (based on the novel by J More
JPRetana
2 years ago
In a scene from The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Billie (Andra Day) is about to sing “Strange Fruit” in concert, which Harry J. Anslinger (Garrett Hedlund), the first commissioner of the US Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics, had forbidden her to do. Behind the audience is a More
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