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Ella Fitzgerald - Just One of Those Things

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United Kingdom, United States · 2019
1h 29m
Director Leslie Woodhead
Starring Ella Fitzgerald
Genre Documentary, Music

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.

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Austin Chronicle by

Just One of Those Things checks off all the stream-age doc boxes: unheard audio, unseen home movies, color from family, collaborator-peers, and celebs.

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Variety by Chris Willman

Woodhead’s movie is at its best in how neatly it delineates the different musical phases of Fitzgerald’s career.

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San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson

The best thing about Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things, other than the music, is the way it evokes an era and reminds us that its subject was one of the great voices of the 20th century.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

Gathering new interviews and a fine selection of archival material, British documentarian Leslie Woodhead tells Fitzgerald's story with a sure feel for the joyous swing and sultry depths of that voice, and a sensitive eye on the complexities of life as a self-made Black woman in 20th century America.

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