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Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer Wisecracks and candid insights from the spitfire jazz/swing singer Anita O'Day, who debuted in the 1940s, about her life, amazing career, and 20-year struggle with heroin and alcohol addiction and song snippets, including Sweet Georgia Brown, Tea for Two, Honeysuckle Rose, Love for Sale, And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine, In a Little Spanish Town, Mad for a Pad, and The Lady in Red, from her nightclub gigs and records dominate this informative and fascinating 2007 documentary that chronicles the singer's life through still photographs and interviews with writers (such as Amy Albany, Mary E. Sellers, and Freeman Gunter), vocalists Annie Ross and Margaret Whiting, former manager Maynard Sloat, trumpeters Denny Roche and Joe Wilder, record producers Ken Druker and Buddy Bregman, jazz impresario George Wein, composers (such as Russell Garcia, Bill Holman, Johnny Mandell, and Gerard Wilson), jazz critic Leonard Feather, radio personalities Mark Morris and Phil Schaap, photographer Charles Britton, number #1 fan John L. Pietranowecz, and journalists James Gavin and Will Friedwald.   Redhead: Year: 2009 Rating:  NR View Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer on the Internet Movie Database