Arena

Season 1, Episode 230

Episode Title: Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day

Air Date: 1984-11-09

Overview:

Tonight Arena presents the first film portrait of the greatest of all the jazz singers. Billie Holiday's tragic story, from her traumatic childhood in Baltimore to her premature death in a New York hospital at the age of 44, is told in the words of her closest friends and colleagues - but mostly through the songs themselves. Arena has assembled an unprecedented number of her filmed performances.