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Feb 22, 2021 · Not likely. In The United States vs. Billie Holiday movie, she has an affair with Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes), the undercover agent who arrests her. While the affair adds a significant amount of drama to the movie, there's little evidence that anything close happened in real life.
Billie Holiday (Andra Day) recounts the reasons why her career was attacked by the US government over performing the song, "Strange Fruit". United States vs....
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Feb 23, 2022 · Tarriona "Tank" Ball from Tank and the Bangas explains how Billie Holiday risked everything by performing "Strange Fruit," decades before the apex of the American civil rights movement.
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Andra Day performs Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" in United States vs. Billie Holiday. Premieres Febr... The most important song of the civil rights movement.
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Apr 12, 2021 · Holiday continued to perform at concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, but haunted by her violent childhood, eventually succumbed once again to drug use. She was hospitalized in 1959 with...
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Feb 27, 2021 · Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit.” Although some details of the relationships have been fictionalized for the film, the actions, indictments, convictions and conspiracies are well...
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Mar 5, 2021 · Andra Day spoke with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the pressure of playing Billie Holiday, how she initially rejected the role and the enduring intensity of "Strange Fruit."
