''Billy's Holiday'' is a 1995

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n musical film.

Production

Screenwriter

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had written a play called ''The Siege of

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'' in which Max Cullen had starred in its original 1980 production. During the production Cullen and Whitburn would head out to bars and Cullen would sing in a Billie Holiday voice. In the early 1990s Whitburn decided to write a film about this ability and wrote the script in three weeks. The opening scene has James Morrison playing " I Can't Get Started" à la Bunny Berigan.

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