Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
Genre
History, Drama, Music
Director
Lee Daniels
Cast
Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence
Country
USA
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