Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

97 mins | Drama, Music | March 12, 2016

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.

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

97 mins | Drama, Music | March 12, 2016

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Two Hands Entertainment
Original title Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Directors Lonny Price
Writers Lanie Robertson

Cast

Audra McDonald

as Billie Holliday

David Michael Cefalu

as Audience Patron

Katie Lynn Cotaya

as Waitress