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Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
  • Release Date: Aug 15, 2008
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  • Summary: The film is a thorough investigation of the life and times of the great jazz vocalist, Anita O’Day. Filmmakers Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden dedicated many years to capturing the engaging story of O’Day’s rise to fame: following her career from her youthful days singing alongside greats like Hoagy Carmichael, Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge to darker times in her life; drug addiction, multiple marriages, abortions, arrests and finally, the triumphant completion of her last album in 2006, shortly before her death at 87.… Expand

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    90
    How was this careless, self-destructive human rhythm machine able to outlast almost all her peers? Maybe the vitality of the jazz she made kept her alive. She was one tough lady.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Howard Reich
    88
    Swinging gleefully on a sun-soaked afternoon, crafting strangely intoxicating phrases, O'Day could do no wrong on that afternoon at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island in 1958.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    Here was a great artist. She enjoyed her life. She didn't complain at the time, she didn't complain when she went cold turkey, she didn't complain in her 80s.

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