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Billie reborn: Not just a nostalgic dinner theatre revue, Ranee Lee's emotional personification of jazz singer Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar and Grill is full of electrifying surprises
Billie reborn: Not just a nostalgic dinner theatre revue, Ranee Lee's emotional personification of jazz singer Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar and Grill is full of electrifying surprises

Billie reborn: Not just a nostalgic dinner theatre revue, Ranee Lee's emotional personification of jazz singer Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar and Grill is full of electrifying surprises

Date4/25/1988
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    ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0062316F
    Keeping the beat: Drummer Archie Alleyne performed with Billie Holiday in a Toronto club in 1957
    Keeping the beat: Drummer Archie Alleyne performed with Billie Holiday in a Toronto club in 1957
    Alleyne, Archie
    12/7/1988
    Billie Holiday's career spanned a mere 20 years, but Lady Day's music will live forever as classic recordings: D3.
    Billie Holiday's career spanned a mere 20 years, but Lady Day's music will live forever as classic recordings: D3.
    Lee, Ranee
    4/28/1988
    John Hammond in 1978: Record producer and music critic discovered such musical greats as Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Charlie Christian and Aretha Franklin
    John Hammond in 1978: Record producer and music critic discovered such musical greats as Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Charlie Christian and Aretha Franklin
    Combs, Erin
    3/8/1978
    Full of surprises
    Full of surprises
    Bock, Tony
    2/19/1985
    Powerful work, which bears no title, almost frames its creator, Montreal artist Guido Molinari, His exhibition is full of surprises, says critic Lisa Balfour Bowen
    Powerful work, which bears no title, almost frames its creator, Montreal artist Guido Molinari, His exhibition is full of surprises, says critic Lisa Balfour Bowen
    Lennon, Frank
    2/5/1982
    Tennis star Billie Jean King has taken time off to write a book in which she goes through an examination of her motives and philosophies. BIllie Jean (...)
    Tennis star Billie Jean King has taken time off to write a book in which she goes through an examination of her motives and philosophies. BIllie Jean (...)
    King, Billie Jean
    7/9/1974
    Counsel taken by surprise. National Hockey League Players Association surprises its legal counsel and director, R. Alan Eagleson (right), with plaque (...)
    Counsel taken by surprise. National Hockey League Players Association surprises its legal counsel and director, R. Alan Eagleson (right), with plaque (...)
    Eagleson, Robert Alan, 1933-
    6/25/1970
    Victor Borge surprises at Ontario Place
    Victor Borge surprises at Ontario Place
    Borge, Victor
    6/24/1975
    T. R. Ide: Surprises MPPs
    T. R. Ide: Surprises MPPs
    Ide, Ran
    8/25/1971
    Mandrake pulls rabbit from assistants sweater, Darlene Leinbach is surprises, Bonnie Moffat wide-eyed over act
    Mandrake pulls rabbit from assistants sweater, Darlene Leinbach is surprises, Bonnie Moffat wide-eyed over act
    Philp, Barry
    9/14/1965
    Billie Burke, in 1908, in first starring role on stage-- This broadway play was Love Watches
    Billie Burke, in 1908, in first starring role on stage-- This broadway play was Love Watches
    Burke, Billie, 1885-1970
    11/9/1934
    Denis, Adrian and Jean (Billie) Conan Doyle with attendant adults at the London Zoo, July 1914
    Denis, Adrian and Jean (Billie) Conan Doyle with attendant adults at the London Zoo, July 1914
    Doyle, Adrian Conan
    7/1/2014