LENA HORNE
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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.
- The Wiz 1978
- Ziegfeld Follies 1945
- Stormy Weather 1943
- Thousands Cheer 1943
- Till the Clouds Roll By 1946
- Broadway Rhythm 1944
- Two Girls and a Sailor 1944
- Death of a Gunfighter 1969
- Cabin in the Sky 1943
- Duchess of Idaho 1950
- I Dood It 1943
- Swing Fever 1943
- Mantan Messes Up 1946
- Words and Music 1948
- That's Entertainment! 1974
- Meet Me in Las Vegas 1956
- Panama Hattie 1942
- That's Entertainment, Part II 1976
- The Cosby Show 1984
- Reading Rainbow 1983