Lena Horne
Gender: Female
Born: 30th June 1917
Died: 9th May 2010
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Brown Sugar, An Evening with Lena Horne
Movies: Cabin in the Sky, The Wiz, The Wiz, That's Entertainment III, The Duke is Tops, Stormy Weather, Ziegfeld Follies, Death of a Gunfighter, Broadway Rhythm, Words and Music, Till the Clouds Roll By, Bride Wars, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1940s, Boogie-Woogie Dream, Sarah Vaughan: Swing Era, The Ladies Sing Jazz: Vol. 2, Bing Crosby's White Christmas USO All Star Show, The Ladies Sing the Blues, Judy Garland: Judy Duets, Jazz Legends: Boogie Woogie, Let's Hear It for the Girls!, In the Mood for Love: Romantic Classics from the Golden Era of Jazz, Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas, Lena Horne: The Incomparable Lena Horne, Hollywood Musicals of the '40s, , The Harlem Renaissance, , Swing Fever
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.
Horne was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Reported to be descended from the John C. Calhoun family,
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