Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 144 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- French
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
- new york city
- brothel
- jazz singer or musician
- mental breakdown
- biography
- addiction
- rape victim
- tour bus
- racism
- based on memoir or autobiography
The bill
Diana Ross
Billie Holiday
Billy Dee Williams
Louis McKay
Richard Pryor
Piano Man
James T. Callahan
Reg Hanley
- Paul Hampton — Harry
- Sid Melton — Jerry
- Virginia Capers — Mama Holiday
- Yvonne Fair — Yvonne
- Isabel Sanford — The Madame
- Tracee Lyles — The Prostitute
- Ned Glass — The Agent
- Milton Selzer — The Doctor
- Norman Bartold — The Detective #1
- Clay Tanner — The Detective #2
- Jester Hairston — The Butler
- Directed
- Sidney J. Furie
- Written
- Terence McCloy, Suzanne de Passe, Chris Clark
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 78 ratings
- Studio
- Weston Productions, Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sidney J. Furie Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
