‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ offers more in-depth look at the singer’s life than the ’72 biopic did — or could Anthony Eaton | Contributing Writer8anthonyeaton@gmail.com “There’s no damn business like show business; you have to smile to keep from throwing up.”— Billie Holiday Billie Holiday lived a complicated life full of great extremes.
And she lived it on her terms. And Andra Day, who plays Holiday in the new movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday, shows us those extremes in a way we have not seen before.
This new film takes a more comprehensive look at at the complexity of Holiday’s life than did the 1972 biopic, Lady Sings The Blues.