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Documentary: 'Billie,' via Linda Lipnack Kuehl

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Marc Myers
Mar 18, 2024
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In the late 1960s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl planned to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Beginning in 1970, she spent eight years tracking down and recording interviews with key artists and personalities who knew the late singer, who died in 1959. These interviews included conversations with Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Sym…

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