Am I Blue? - Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall - Billie Holiday

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- Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall, 1944. Scene from To Have and Have Not based loosely on Ernest Hemingway's novel. The film's story is set in French Martinique in the Caribbean rather than Key West, Fla, the novel's location.

- To Have and Have Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1937. The book follows Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida during WWII. The book was Hemingway's 2nd novel set in the U.S. after The Torrents of Spring. Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, & revised as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, the novel portrays Key West & Cuba in the 1930s, & provides a social commentary on that time & place...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Have_and_Have_Not_(film)

- IMDB. During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader & his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. Director, Howard Hawks, Writers, Ernest Hemingway, Jules Furthman (screen play), William Faulkner (screen play). Stars, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan.. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037382/
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- PowerPoint version for the song "Am I blue?", based on Billie's photography taken by Frank Driggs, at Offbeat Club, Chicago, 1939. *Read more about Billie Holiday's great talent and success as a musician and challenges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday



- Billie Holiday, aged 2, 1917.
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- Esquire: 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday Tells A Story From the Racist Origins of the War on Drugs.' April 21, 2021. We talked to Chasing the Scream author Johann Hari about the role jazz legend Billie Holiday played in the early days of the drug war...https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a35622823/united-states-vs-billie-holiday-true-story/