http://www.fancast.com/tv/Masters of American Music/105264/main Full Length Video(s) for Masters of American Music en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:33:10 GMT Masters of American Music: Billie Holiday 105264 -1 -1 713669 television/Masters of American Music/Masters of American Music: Billie Holiday http://www.fancast.com/tv/Masters-of-American-Music/105264/1297652524/Masters-of-American-Music%3A-Billie-Holiday/videos This film invites viewers to see the many faces of this beautiful woman- this "dark lady of the sonnets," as one poet called her and to appreciate her undying art more deeply. Most presentations of Billie Holiday feature Billie as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. The single fact of her life that matters above all others is that she was a great artist who, with Louis Armstrong, invented modern jazz singing. Mining a treasure-trove of completely new information, the producers set the record straight - and beautifully. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness and its ring, stage and screen star, Ruby Dee, reads from Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:18:33 GMT 1297652524 43:53 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:00:00 -0400 0.0 This film invites viewers to see the many faces of this beautiful woman- this "dark lady of the sonnets," as one poet called her and to appreciate her undying art more deeply. Most presentations of Billie Holiday feature Billie as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. The single fact of her life that matters above all others is that she was a great artist who, with Louis Armstrong, invented modern jazz singing. Mining a treasure-trove of completely new information, the producers set the record straight - and beautifully. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness and its ring, stage and screen star, Ruby Dee, reads from Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. nonadult