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 Wiz1978
- Ziegfeld Follies1945
- Stormy Weather1943
- Thousands Cheer1943
- Till the Clouds Roll By1946
- Broadway Rhythm1944
- Two Girls and a Sailor1944
- Death of a Gunfighter1969
- Cabin in the Sky1943
- Duchess of Idaho1950
- I Dood It1943
- Swing Fever1943
- Words and Music1948
- That's Entertainment!1974
- Meet Me in Las Vegas1956
- Panama Hattie1942
- That's Entertainment, Part II1976
- Mantan Messes Up1946
- The Cosby Show1984
- The Judy Garland Show1963
- Reading Rainbow1983