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Lena Horne
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.
As actor
How It Feels to Be Free
Sid & Judy
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Storm in My Heart
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
An Evening With Lena Horne
Judy Garland Duets
The Incomparable Lena Horne
The Harlem Renaissance
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
It's Black Entertainment
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
That's Entertainment! III
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Aretha Franklin: Duets
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
Night of 100 Stars II
DTV: Golden Oldies
Night of 100 Stars
The Wiz
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment!
Keep U.S. Beautiful
Death of a Gunfighter
Now!