Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer Movie Overview

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer - Overview

Genre: Documentary, Historical

Opened: Aug 15, 2008 Run Time: 1hr 30min

Cast: Amy Albany Buddy Bregman Charles Britton David Boska

Director: Robbie Cavolina

Producer: Robbie Cavolina Ian McCrudden Melissa Davis

Executive Producer: Nancy Fields O’Connor

Synopsis

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer: Before her death in November 2006 at age 86, Anita O'Day, one of jazz's most complex and rhythmic vocalists, smiled on the music world for six decades. This film portrait captures all the magic that took this sly Chicago native, a white girl who could hold her own against Billie and Ella, from Gene Krupa's bandstand to solo stardom. Film footage of Anita O'Day's appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, immortalized in the 1960 documentary Ja... Read More