
Lena Horne
Born June 30, 1917 · 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 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.
Movies

The Wiz

Night of 100 Stars II

That's Entertainment!

Death of a Gunfighter

Ziegfeld Follies

Till the Clouds Roll By

Night of 100 Stars

Two Girls and a Sailor

That's Entertainment! III

Now!

That's Entertainment, Part II

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Thousands Cheer

Meet Me in Las Vegas

It's Black Entertainment

Words and Music

Cabin in the Sky

Swing Fever

Swingtime Jamboree

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days

Stormy Weather

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

Panama Hattie

Sesame Street: Learning About Letters

Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

Sid & Judy
TV Shows

The Cosby Show

Tony Awards

The Ed Sullivan Show

A Different World

The Oscars

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Steve Allen Show

American Masters

Reading Rainbow

Your Show of Shows

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Password

The Judy Garland Show

Sanford and Son

The Flip Wilson Show

Kraft Music Hall

The Dean Martin Show

The Muppet Show

The Kennedy Center Honors

MGM Parade

The Hollywood Palace

The Bell Telephone Hour

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Hollywood Black

The DuPont Show of the Week

The Twentieth Century

The Perry Como Show

Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
More Movies

Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover

I Dood It

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

Duchess of Idaho

Broadway Rhythm

Judy Garland Duets

The All-Star Christmas Show

Studio Visit

Aretha Franklin: Duets

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

The Duke Is Tops

The Harlem Renaissance

A.N.T.A. Album of 1955

How It Feels to Be Free

Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2

DTV: Golden Oldies

Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas

Beyond the Riviera

Mantan Messes Up

Boogie-Woogie Dream

The Incomparable Lena Horne

An Evening With Lena Horne




