Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
| Director | Leslie Woodhead |
|---|---|
| Year | 2019 |
| Country | USA |
| Runtime | 1h 30m |
| Language | English |
| TMDB | View entry |
Synopsis
Here is an Ella the world never knew – tough, thoughtful, funny, a dazzling musical innovator. The film also uncovers Ella’s commitment to the battle for Civil Rights; and it explores the conflicts that always haunted this intensely private woman: the struggle to reconcile her hunger for adoring audiences with her longing for a domestic life with her husband and son. At a time when she was the biggest singing star in the world, her pianist and friend Oscar Peterson said Ella was “the loneliest woman in the world”. But as Jamie Cullum says “her music is one of the reasons it’s worth being on this planet”.
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