Directed by:
Leslie WoodheadCast:
Ella Fitzgerald (a.f.), Norma Miller, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Jamie Cullum, Cleo Laine, André Previn, Jicchak Perlman, Dizzy Gillespie (a.f.) (more)VOD (1)
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Her career was a unique journey which began in 1934 at a talent competition in Harlem. Over six decades, Ella Fitzgerald embodied jazz music like no-one else. She was America‘s »First Lady of Song«, whose life and work reflected the moods and upheavals of her time. Archive recordings and interviews with colleagues like Smokey Robinson, Jamie Cullum, Tony Bennett and Norma Miller reveal a person who lived and breathed her music and electrifies the screen with her exuberant joie de vivre. (Filmfest Hamburg)
(more)Cast
Ella Fitzgerald (a.f.)
USA
Norma Miller
USA
Best movies:
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Malcolm X (1992)
Tony Bennett
USA
Best movies:
Analyze This (1999)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
The Scout (1994)
Johnny Mathis
USA
Best movies:
Lizzie (1957)
Just Getting Started (2017)
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995) (TV movie)
Jamie Cullum
UK
Cleo Laine
UK
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) (TV movie)
André Previn
German Empire
Jicchak Perlman
Palestine
Best movies:
Music of the Heart (1999)
Dizzy Gillespie (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Cool World (1963)
Norman Granz (a.f.)
USA
Louis Armstrong (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Duke Ellington (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Sophie Okonedo (narrator)
UK
Best movies:
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
The Escape Artist (2013) (series)
Smokey Robinson
USA
Best movies:
The Temptations (1998) (TV movie)
Knights of the City (1986)
Last Holiday (2006)