Billy's Holiday
Billy's Holiday is a 1995 Australian musical film.
| Billy's Holiday | |
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| Directed by | Richard Wherrett |
| Produced by | Tristram Miall |
| Written by | Denis Whitburn |
| Starring | Max Cullen |
Production company | Beyond Films |
| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment, Miramax |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$4 million[1] |
| Box office | A$68,472 (Australia)[2] |
Production
Screenwriter Denis Whitburn had written a play called The Siege of Frank Sinatra in which Max Cullen had starred in its original 1980 production. During the production Cullen and Whitburn would head out to bars and Cullen would sing in a Billie Holiday voice. In the early 1990s Whitburn decided to write a film about this ability and wrote the script in three weeks.[1]
References
- Mary Colbert, "Finding Billy's Holiday", Cinema Papers, June 1995 p4-8, 56
- "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 11 November 2012
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