2003
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Told through Holiday’s experiences as the most charismatic singer of her generation, who also happened to be addicted to heroin, the film addresses the ways in which Anslinger (Garrett Hedlund)...
Holiday's drug addictions were a problem on the set. She earned more than one thousand dollars per week from club ventures but spent most of it on heroin . Her lover, Joe Guy , traveled to Hollywood while Holiday was filming and supplied her with drugs.
“Strange Fruit” The movie starts with a graphic photo of white people attacking a Black victim, with overlay text noting that in 1937, an anti-lynching bill was considered in the Senate, though...
He pledged to eradicate all drugs, everywhere—and within thirty years, he succeeded in turning this crumbling department with these disheartened men into the headquarters for a global war that...
For him, Billie Holiday was an ideal symptom of the drug problem—and an irresistible target for his crusade. She was a woman. She was black. As a child, she scrubbed floors in a brothel. She was...
The harsh upbringing and drug-addled adulthood are only the tip of the iceberg, in fact. TIME’s coverage of the singer from her lifetime is nearly exclusively limited to misfortune; shortly...
Did Billie Holiday have a drug problem? By the mid-1940s, Billie Holiday was spending about $500 a week on drugs (with inflation, over $9,000 in today’s money). She was a frequent drinker and user of marijuana, opium, cocaine, and especially heroin.
