Join Maysles Documentary Center for a sneak preview virtual screening and Q&A of Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things with producer Reggie Nadelson in attendance. The film is available for preorder and will be available to view on June 19 for screening. Once the film is available, you will have approximately 12 hours to watch the film before the Q&A begins. The film will be available up until 11:59pm EST afterwards as well.
Click here to register for the Maysles Q&A
The information below applies to the general release on June 26 and does not apply to this event.
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. “Ella: Just One of Those Things” follows her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.
The film uses never-before-seen images and unheard interviews to bring Ella Fitzgerald to life and to tell the story of her music. - a black woman who makes her career in the face of horrifying racism.
Here is an Ella the world never knew – tough, thoughtful, funny, a dazzling musical innovator. The film also uncovers Ella’s commitment to the battle for Civil Rights; and it explores the conflicts that always haunted this intensely private woman: the struggle to reconcile her hunger for adoring audiences with her longing for a domestic life with her husband and son. At a time when she was the biggest singing star in the world, her pianist and friend Oscar Peterson said Ella was “the loneliest woman in the world”. But as Jamie Cullum says “her music is one of the reasons it’s worth being on this planet”.
Featuring interviews with: Tony Bennett, Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Cleo Laine, Andre Previn, Norma Miller, Patti Austin, Itzhak Perlman, Margo Jefferson, Will Friedwald and a rare interview with Ella’s son, Ray Brown Jr.
Narrated by Sharon D. Clarke
- Year2019
- Runtime90 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- Premiere2019
- RatingNR
- DirectorLeslie Woodhead
- ProducerReggie Nadelson
- Executive ProducerJonathan Clyde, Geoff Kempin, Terry Shand
- CastElla Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Patti Austin, Margo Jefferson, Alexis Morast
- EditorIan Meller
Join Maysles Documentary Center for a sneak preview virtual screening and Q&A of Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things with producer Reggie Nadelson in attendance. The film is available for preorder and will be available to view on June 19 for screening. Once the film is available, you will have approximately 12 hours to watch the film before the Q&A begins. The film will be available up until 11:59pm EST afterwards as well.
Click here to register for the Maysles Q&A
The information below applies to the general release on June 26 and does not apply to this event.
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. “Ella: Just One of Those Things” follows her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.
The film uses never-before-seen images and unheard interviews to bring Ella Fitzgerald to life and to tell the story of her music. - a black woman who makes her career in the face of horrifying racism.
Here is an Ella the world never knew – tough, thoughtful, funny, a dazzling musical innovator. The film also uncovers Ella’s commitment to the battle for Civil Rights; and it explores the conflicts that always haunted this intensely private woman: the struggle to reconcile her hunger for adoring audiences with her longing for a domestic life with her husband and son. At a time when she was the biggest singing star in the world, her pianist and friend Oscar Peterson said Ella was “the loneliest woman in the world”. But as Jamie Cullum says “her music is one of the reasons it’s worth being on this planet”.
Featuring interviews with: Tony Bennett, Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Cleo Laine, Andre Previn, Norma Miller, Patti Austin, Itzhak Perlman, Margo Jefferson, Will Friedwald and a rare interview with Ella’s son, Ray Brown Jr.
Narrated by Sharon D. Clarke
- Year2019
- Runtime90 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- Premiere2019
- RatingNR
- DirectorLeslie Woodhead
- ProducerReggie Nadelson
- Executive ProducerJonathan Clyde, Geoff Kempin, Terry Shand
- CastElla Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Patti Austin, Margo Jefferson, Alexis Morast
- EditorIan Meller