The Many Faces of Billie Holiday invites viewers to see the many faces of this dark lady of the sonnets, as one poet called her, & to appreciate her undying art more deeply. Most presentations feature Lady Day as the sad victim of hard times & drugs. The single fact of her life that matters above all others is that she was a great artist who, with Louis Armstrong, invited modern jazz singing. Mining a treasure trove of completely new information, the producers set the record straight
- & beautiful. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness & its ring, stage & screen Ruby Dee reads from Holidays autobiography Lady Sings The Blues.