Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Actors: Audra McDonald, Shelton Becton, George Farmer, Clayton Craddock
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Runtime: 90 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 8 nominations.
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.
