
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
2016•90 min•
★7.6
MusicDramaTV Movie
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.
Cast & Crew

Audra McDonald
Lady Day

Shelton Becton
Jimmy Powers

David Michael Cefalu
Audience Patron

Katie Lynn Cotaya
Waitress

DirectorLonny Price
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