Lena Horne
- Acting
- June 30, 1917 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- May 9, 2010
Biography
Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. 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 died on May 9, 2010 in New York City. During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.
Known for
Filmography
- Hollywood Black · Self
- How It Feels to Be Free · Self
- Sid & Judy · Self
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom · Self
- Storm in My Heart · Self
- Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days · Self
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2 · Self
- Judy Garland Duets · Self
- Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
- An Evening With Lena Horne · Self
- The Incomparable Lena Horne
- Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
- The Harlem Renaissance · Self
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years · Self
- It's Black Entertainment · Self
- Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel · Self
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand · Self
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show · Self
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies · Self
- That's Entertainment! III · Self
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! · Self
- Aretha Franklin: Duets · Self
- You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story · Self
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs · Self
- A Different World · Self
- American Masters · Self
- Sesame Street: Learning About Letters · Self
- Night of 100 Stars II · Self
- The Cosby Show · Lena Horne
- DTV: Golden Oldies · Self
- Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
- Reading Rainbow · Self
- Night of 100 Stars · Self
- Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President · Self
- The Kennedy Center Honors · Self
- The Wiz · Glinda the Good
- The Muppet Show · Self
- That's Entertainment, Part II · (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment! · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Keep U.S. Beautiful · Self
- Keep US Beautiful
- Sanford and Son
- Great Performances · Self
- The Flip Wilson Show · Self
- Death of a Gunfighter · Claire Quintana
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In · Self
- The Dean Martin Show
- Now! · Self, Music
- The Hollywood Palace · Self
- The Judy Garland Show · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The Mike Douglas Show · Self
- Password
- The DuPont Show of the Week · Self
- Beyond the Riviera
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies · Self
- The Bell Telephone Hour · Self
- The All-Star Christmas Show · Self
- Kraft Music Hall
- The Twentieth Century
- The Perry Como Show
- The Steve Allen Show · Self
- Tony Awards · Self
- Meet Me in Las Vegas · Lena Horne
- Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
- MGM Parade · Self
- Music 55
- A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 · Self
- The Oscars · Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · Self
- Duchess of Idaho · Lena Horne
- Your Show of Shows
- What's My Line? · Self
- Words and Music · Lena Horne
- The Ed Sullivan Show · Self
- Till the Clouds Roll By · Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne
- Studio Visit · Self
- Mantan Messes Up · Lene
- Swingtime Jamboree · Self
- Ziegfeld Follies · Lena Horne (segment "Love")