Reputations

Billie Holiday: Sensational Lady (2001x4)

Data di messa in onda: Lug 31, 2001

The fourth film in this new eight-part series paints afresh portrait of jazz diva Billie Holiday. By combining rare archive material, including footage of performances unseen for almost 50 years and interviews with close friends, many of whom have never spoken before on television, a new insight is achieved into the well-publicised excesses of her short life - she died of cirrhosis of the liver aged 44 -which questions the received image of her as a stereotypical victim.