Independent Lens
Season 8 Episode 14 - Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
As Duke Ellington's co-composer, arranger, and right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn wrote some of the greatest American music of the 20th century. But as a gay man in the ’40s and ’50s, Strayhorn had to lead a discreet existence, while Ellington played to thunderous applause on center stage.
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Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
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