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2. Apr. 2014 · Though she contributed occasional recordings after this, she largely retreated from public life. Personal Life, Legacy and Death. Horne was married to Louis Jones from 1937 to 1944, and...
Personal life Horne at her 80th birthday party, 1997. Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative, in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (1940–1970) who died of kidney disease.
7. Juli 2023 · By the end of the 1940s, she was a notable Progressive Citizens of America member, suing various establishments for racial discrimination. Having retired to a more private life by the mid-1990s, the "The Wiz" star died in 2010 at the age of 92. Though Horne is gone, her legacy still inspires.
- Marta Djordjevic
In 1937 Horne married minor politician Louis Jones, by whom she had a daughter, Gail, and a son, Edwin (they separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944). She gained some early stage experience in Lew Leslie's revues, Blackbirds of 1939 and Blackbirds of 1940, and in 1940 she joined one of the great white swing bands, the Charlie Barnet Orchestra.
Lena Horne (1997) Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (* 30. Juni 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 9. Mai 2010 in Manhattan, New York City) war eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Schauspielerin .
4. Mai 1999 · Lena Horne (born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died May 9, 2010, New York City) was an American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City.
1. Juli 2020 · In Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne, published in 2009, James Gavin recounts the star’s turbulent life—from her love-hate relationship with fellow groundbreaker Harry Belafonte to her...
