Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007): Cast

She survived poverty, heroin addiction and jail time to become a revered jazz singer. The film follows Anita O’Day’s life, noting a childhood tonsillectomy that removed her uvula, ending vibrato and sustained notes but creating her signature percussive style. Defying that limitation, she built a prolific, acclaimed 20th‑century jazz career.

• IM Co-director Ian McCrudden
• RC Co-director Robbie Cavolina

• JC John Cameron Mitchell as themselves
• AR Annie Ross as themselves
• MW Margaret Whiting as themselves
• WF Will Friedwald as themselves

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