A beautiful lady and her dog

Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946

Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947

Was Billie Holiday thinking of Mister when she sang this song?

Portrait of Mister (Billie Holiday's dog), New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

Photos by William P. Gottlieb, found at Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz, because of a link through benhasten