Editing Anita O'Day (section)

==Memoir and later life==
In November 1980, she was a headliner along with [[Clark Terry]], [[Lionel Hampton]] and [[Ramsey Lewis]], during the opening two-week ceremony performances celebrating the short-lived resurgence of the Blue Note Lounge at the Marriott O'Hare Hotel near Chicago. O'Day spoke candidly about her drug addiction in her 1981 memoir ''High Times, Hard Times'', which led to a string of TV appearances on ''[[60 Minutes]]'', ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', ''[[The Today Show]]'' with [[Bryant Gumbel]], ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'', ''Over Easy'' with [[Hugh Downs]], ''[[The Tomorrow Show]]'' with [[Tom Snyder]], and several others. She toured Europe and performed a 50th Anniversary Concert (1985) at [[Carnegie Hall]], which resulted in the 2010 release of ''Anita O'Day – Big Band at Carnegie Hall'' (Emily Productions).<ref name="LarkinJazz"/>

Following a life-threatening fall down a staircase at the end of 1996, she made a comeback in 1999, resuming her career with the help of long-time manager [[Alan Eichler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-18-tm-57102-story.html|title=They Said She'd Never Sing Again|first=Ed|last=Leibowitz|date=18 July 1999|access-date=7 August 2018|website=Articles.latimes.com}}</ref> In 2005, her version of the standard "[[Sing, Sing, Sing]]" was remixed by [[RSL (band)|RSL]] and was included in the compilation album ''[[Verve Remixed|Verve Remixed 3]]''. The following year, she released ''[[Indestructible!]]'', her first album in 13 years and her last studio album. During this period pianist [[John Colianni]] was her accompanist for numerous club appearances and special gigs (Colianni also plays on ''Indestructible!'').

One of her better known late-career audio performances is "[[Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby]]", which opens the film ''[[Shortbus]]'' (2006) by [[John Cameron Mitchell]].

In November 2006, Robbie Cavolina (her last manager) entered her into a West Hollywood convalescent hospital while she recovered from pneumonia. Two days before her death, she had demanded to be released from the hospital.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bay Area News Group |first= |date=November 27, 2006 |title=Renowned jazz singer Anita O’Day dies |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/11/27/renowned-jazz-singer-anita-oday-dies/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=East Bay Times |language=en-US}}</ref> On November 23, 2006, at age 87, O'Day died in her sleep. The official cause of death was cardiac arrest.

The feature-length documentary ''[[Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer]]'', directed by Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden, premiered at the [[Tribeca Film Festival]] on April 30, 2007.<ref name="Voice of Choice" /><ref>{{YouTube|QfcH8fAf7TM|"Anita O'Day: Indestructible"}}</ref>