![]() As she progressed, others got what they needed from her various steps and stages. Cut to Fitzgerald in archival footage describing her early voice as thin and small. We see Smokey Robinson, whose face is always lit up anyway, light up even further when he describes first hearing “A-Tisket, A-Tasket.” The upper-register singing-the girlish glee and easy swing-must have opened up worlds of possibility. The film charts her career and her evolution, the latter being especially relevant. “I kept on,” she says, and she might as well be the sun speaking. The most erotic scene in the history of American cinema: Mary and George talking to Sam Wainwright on the same telephone receiver in It’s a Wonderful Life.Fitzgerald’s summation of what she did and what in turn made her everything she was, is contained in three words we hear early in the film. ![]() Watching Ella Fitzgerald insist upon making her way from the streets of Harlem-and insist she does-to an outcome that anyone else would have thought beyond her means or talents, makes the Leslie Woodhead documentary Just One of Those Things a quest narrative to fire up a Greek bard. ![]()
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