

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill(2016)
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.
Movie: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
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Jimmy Powers
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Waitress

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
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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.
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2016-03-12
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