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AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards: March 28, 2021 Best Movie for Grownups The United States vs. Billie Holiday: Won [23] Best Director Lee Daniels: Nominated Best Time Capsule The United States vs. Billie Holiday: Nominated Academy Awards: April 25, 2021: Best Actress: Andra Day: Nominated [24] African-American Film Critics Association Awards ...
Billy finally gets a title shot, thanks to Pat's management and reporter Cliff Halliday's enthusiastic buildup. But when an angry Barton comes to threaten Billy, a gun goes off, Barton is killed and Billy is arrested for his murder. By the time he can get released, Pat isn't there on fight night and Billy's first round goes badly.
Eleanora Fagan [4] [5] was born on April 7, 1915, [6] in Philadelphia to African American unwed teenage couple Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her mother moved to Philadelphia at age 19, [7] after she was evicted from her parents' home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, for becoming pregnant.
Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography that, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song.
Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine. [2] [3] [4] [5] The film is based around interviews ...
New Orleans is a 1947 American musical romance film starring Arturo de Córdova and Dorothy Patrick, and directed by Arthur Lubin. [1] Though it features a rather conventional plot, the film is noteworthy both for casting jazz legends Billie Holiday as a singing maid romantically involved with bandleader Louis Armstrong, and extensive playing of New Orleans-style Dixieland jazz: over twenty ...
Actors: Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton Fun fact: Halle Berry became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie. Twenty years later, she remains the only ...
William Holden and Judy Holliday in a promotional still for Born Yesterday. Bullying, uncouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock goes to Washington, D.C. with his brassy girlfriend, Emma "Billie" Dawn, and his crooked lawyer, Jim Devery, to "influence" a politician or two.