Movie · 2021
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Released 31 March 2021 More from 2021 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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How old were they?
Leslie Jordan
as Reginald Lord Devine
Adriane Lenox
as Mrs. Fletcher
Robert Alan Beuth
as Congressman J. Rankin
Donald Fullilove
as Additional Voices (voice)
Alain Goulem
as Ed Fishman
Joe Cobden
as George Jessel
Natasha Lyonne
as Tallulah Bankhead
Garrett Hedlund
as Harry Anslinger
Evan Ross
as Agent Williams
Dusan Dukic
as Joe Glaser
Jonathan Higgins
as Defense Lawyer Erlich
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The numbers
33years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Leslie Jordan — oldest on the call sheet
32Evan Ross — youngest billed
51average age of the credited cast