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

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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

Date4/25/1988

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Lee, Ranee (subject)

Slaughter, Mike (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0062316F

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