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Release date United States: Thursday, August 14, 2008

Director: Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden

Cast:

Louis Armstrong as Himself (archive footage)
Will Friedwald as Himself
Johnny Mandel as Himself
Anita O'Day as Herself
Annie Ross as Herself
George Wein as Himself
Margaret Whiting as Herself
Gerald Wilson as Himself

About:

The film is an intimate portrait of the maverick jazz vocalist Anita O’Day, a self-professed "song-stylist" and rightly known as one of the greatest jazz divas of all time. Filmmakers Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden have devoted four years in order to perfectly capture O’Day’s seven decade career. "Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer" documents her wild ride; following her career from the early days singing alongside the likes of Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Stan Kenton, Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael through her many great adversities which she fought to overcome; a 20-year heroin and alcohol addiction, several failed marriages, abortions and arrests and finally, her last-hurrah album, completed just before the singer’s 2006 death at age 87.

Genres:
Documentary

Producers: Robbie Cavolina, Melissa Davis

Writers: Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden

Studio: Palm Pictures