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Lena Horne

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born

June 30, 1917 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, The United States

died

May 09, 2010

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Music

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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress and dancer.

Horne joined the mike 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 progressive 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 as well as television, and releasing well received albums. Horne announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one...more

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Books by Lena Horne

Average rating: 3.95 · 758 ratings · 35 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Essential Lena Horne 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Performance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Lena by Lena Horne, Richard Schickel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Champagne for One by Rex Stout, Lena Horne (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 1958 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Hornes: An American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley, Lena Horne 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002	My rating: