Billie Holiday's autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," begins with one of the great all-time leads: "Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Since Billie Holiday's death in 1959, an image of her has emerged based mainly on the movies Lady Sings the Blues and The United ...

Fans of Holiday can retrace her life through the singer’s own words, as well as through the recollections of those who loved and worked with her. The best Billie Holiday books examine not just ...

Playlist Tom Wolfe & Gene Bertoncini “I'll Remember ... In the late 1960s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl planned to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Beginning in 1970, she spent ...

As Alexander writes, “What kept Billie going was the next gig ... The first major Holiday biography in more than two decades, “Bitter Crop” benefits from a tight focus and a cinematic ...

Billie (out Dec. 4 on VOD and in select theaters), is about both Holiday — as told through the voices of people who knew her — and Kuehl's obsession with crafting her biography. "I'd like to ...

“Billie Holiday is one of the great fashion ... who did extensive research for a Holiday biography that was never completed. “In their houses she began … singing the pop tunes of the day.” ...

It’s also the year of Holiday’s death at age ... though not an especially dynamic biography, sets out a daunting task. It’s a marathon — Billie leaves the stage only once during the ...

Holiday talked. But she was economical with the truth. In late May 1947, Billie Holiday was caught with narcotics and sentenced to 10 months in a West Virginia prison.

Billie Holiday.” To combat this reductive view, every major Holiday biography—including studies by Robert G. O’Meally, Farah Jasmine Griffin and John Szwed—has highlighted her spirited ...

How many Broadway shows has Billie Holiday been in? Billie Holiday has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Billie Holiday been in? Billie Holiday has not appeared in the ...

In 1959, Billie Holiday was approaching her mid-40s at half her weight ... While Mr. Alexander deals with Holiday’s ailments and her troubles with the law, much of his biography is about her ...