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Lena Horne
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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 n…
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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.
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2019
Sid & Judy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Movie Self - Singer (archive footage)
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2018
Storm in My Heart
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Movie Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
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2006
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Judy Garland Duets
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2005
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2005
An Evening With Lena Horne
Movie self
- 2004
- 2004
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2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
The Harlem Renaissance
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
It's Black Entertainment
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Movie Self
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1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV show Self
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1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie Self - Host
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1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
Aretha Franklin: Duets
Movie Self
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1990
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
A Different World
TV show Self
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1986
American Masters
TV show Self
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1986
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
Movie Self
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1985
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie Self
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1984
The Cosby Show
TV show Lena Horne
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1984
DTV: Golden Oldies
Movie Self
- 1984
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1983
Reading Rainbow
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
- 1981
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1978
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV show Self
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1978
The Wiz
Movie Glinda the Good
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1976
The Muppet Show
TV show Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1974
That's Entertainment!
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1973
Keep US Beautiful
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