BBC Documentaries - Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day

Seizoen: 1985 - Aflevering: 7 / 159 - Eerst uitgezonden: 07 december 1985 - Episode ID: 624031

Billie Holiday's tragic story, from her traumatic childhood ' in Baltimore to her premature death in a New i York hospital at the age of 44, is told in the words of her closest friends and colleagues - but mostly through the songs themselves. Arena has assembled an unprecedented number of her filmed performances.