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Lena Mary Calhoun 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. 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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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1917-06-30
- event Death Date 2010-05-09
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2
- info Birth Place Brooklyn, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Lena Horne
6
The Wiz
1978-10-24
6.1
Ziegfeld Follies
1945-08-26
6.9
Stormy Weather
1943-07-21
6.4
Thousands Cheer
1943-09-13
5.6
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946-12-05
0
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
1986-05-12
5.5
Broadway Rhythm
1944-01-19
5.7
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944-06-14
6.4
Death of a Gunfighter
1969-05-08
8
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993-05-09
6.7
The Duke Is Tops
1938-07-15
0
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005-01-01
6.9
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
6.3
Cabin in the Sky
1943-03-24
0
The Incomparable Lena Horne
2004-10-26
5
Duchess of Idaho
1950-07-14
0
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
2010-01-05
6.2
Now!
1965-01-01
4
I Dood It
1943-09-01
5
Swing Fever
1943-11-01
0
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
2006-12-06
0
Mantan Messes Up
1946-01-01
5.8
Words and Music
1948-12-31
0
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990-07-23
0
An Evening With Lena Horne
2005-01-01
0
Honor Coles, Le Danseur De Claquettes Distingue
7.2
That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
8
Night of 100 Stars II
1985-03-10
6
The Harlem Renaissance
2004-01-01
4.7
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956-03-09
0
Harlem Hotshots
1945-06-01
0
Swingtime Jamboree
1946-01-01
0
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984-09-01
0
Beyond the Riviera
1960-10-24
0
Judy Garland Duets
2005-06-04
3.5
Studio Visit
1946-05-11
0
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
1955-03-28
4
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004-01-01
4
Panama Hattie
1942-09-30
6.8
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
0
Boogie-Woogie Dream
1944-01-01
8
It's Black Entertainment
2002-02-08
7.6
Sid & Judy
2019-06-26
0
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
1960-02-15
7.7
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019-02-25
0
How It Feels to Be Free
2021-01-18
0
Storm in My Heart
2018-02-01
0
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999-02-24
7
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994-05-18
6
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
0
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004-08-31
7
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10
3.2
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996-06-10
7.1
The Cosby Show
1984-09-20
7.5
Sanford and Son
1972-01-14
7.2
Password
1961-10-02
4.5
The Hollywood Palace
1964-01-04
6.4
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1967-09-09
5.5
Your Show of Shows
1950-02-25
4
Kraft Music Hall
1958-10-08
7.4
The Dean Martin Show
1965-09-16
4.8
The Flip Wilson Show
1970-09-17
6
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961-09-17
0
The Twentieth Century
1957-10-20
4
The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24
0
Film Night
1968-12-29
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
0
Music 55
1955-07-12
7.2
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28
6
The Perry Como Show
1956-09-29
0
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
1955-09-25
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
8
The Muppet Show
1976-09-05
7.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
8
The Judy Garland Show
1963-12-08
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
8.4
Reading Rainbow
1983-06-06
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
4.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
6
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959-01-12
6
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959-01-12
7
A Different World
1987-09-24
0
Keep US Beautiful
1973-03-27
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
6.9
American Masters
1986-06-23
6.6
What's My Line?
1950-02-02
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28