Anita O’Day to Hit the Big Screen
Everyone knows about Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn, but you don’t hear about Anita O’Day much anymore. Nevertheless, the jazz documentary Anita O’Day: The Life of a Music Legend is actually going to get a theatrical release.
Assumptions had been that it would make the festival circuit and then go straight to DVD, but Palm Pictures has picked up the North American rights with plans to release it in late May with a DVD to follow in the fall.
Reportedly light on new biographical information, but chock full of tasty performance clips, the documentary completed filming in 2006 just a few months before O’Day passed away at age 87.
Source: Variety
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Anita, you’re so huge at LiC, maybe you should have your own Gravatar! coughcough
Hey! I commented. Spammed again - the monkeys have it out for me now. Yeah, I ought to get a Gravatar, too…
Craig, I like Anita O’Day, really. I saw her perform in a club once. She had a good voice. But she wasn’t as interesting a singer as many of the jazz greats like Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn. Sorry. :-(
I was just kidding guys!
In the words of Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa: “They can’t all be winners.”
I’ve gotta say, I like Billie’s version of Them There Eyes better than Anita’s, but Anita’s is still pretty amazing.
I didn’t see you in spam Daniel, I must’ve accidentally deleted you.
That’s unfortunate, because it was the greatest comment ever written.
Actually I think I just said that this sounded really interesting.
ahaha…the best ones are always the ones that got away…