Palm Pictures picked up a docu portrait today that, like last year’s tragi-drama of La Vie en Rose demonstrates, musicans often come with open wounds. THR reports that the label picked up the distrib rights to the Tribeca film festival-selected Anita O’Day: The
Life Of a Music Legend.
“Legend” includes new interviews with jazz artists Annie Ross, Margaret Whiting and George Wein, along with
rare footage of O’Day performances with Louis Armstrong and other
musicians from her 1940s heyday. O’Day, who overcame alcoholism, rape, heroin addiction and jail time in her seven decade career.
