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Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

DocumentaryMusicHistory
7.1·2019·1h 29m

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...

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Cast

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

DIRECTOR

Leslie Woodhead

OVERVIEW

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. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS retraces this extraordinary journey.