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10. Mai 2010 · Groundbreaking singer, performer and film star Lena Horne died Sunday night in New York at the age of 92. Horne, the first African American to sign a long-term contract with a major film studio ...
3. Nov. 2022 · Lena Horne's 1981 show The Lady And Her Music is the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history. Actress Lena Horne has become the first black woman to have a Broadway theatre named in her ...
Lena Horne (New York, 1917. június 30. – New York, 2010. május 9.) kétszeres Grammy-díjas amerikai dzsesszénekesnő, Broadway-színésznő.Már a 40-es években azok közé a fekete művészek közé tartozott, akik fehér együttessel léptek fel, és hollywoodi szerződésük volt.
15. Nov. 2023 · In Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed, Bogle paints the Brooklyn-born belle’s search for self, structure, and joy as a lifelong one.The starlet’s MGM contract bore speciality music numbers in white-cast films and two pivotal Hollywood Black films, Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky (both 1943; she was on loan to 20th Century Fox for Stormy Weather).
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, född 30 juni 1917 i Bedford-Stuyvesant i Brooklyn i New York, död 9 maj 2010 på Manhattan i New York, var en amerikansk sångerska, skådespelare och medborgarrättsaktivist. [ 5] Horne medverkade i filmer som Stormy Weather (1943), Soldatflamman (1943), Svart extas (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Efter regn kommer ...
28. Nov. 2023 · Lena Horne was a trailblazer. Born in 1917, the daughter of Edwin Horne Jr., an entrepreneur and gambler, and Edna Louise Scottron, an actress in a Black theater troupe, Horne rose from the chorus of the storied Cotton Club in Harlem, which she joined at age 16, to become a celebrated singer and nightclub performer, a featured star at MGM, and a civil rights activist in a career that spanned ...
31. Okt. 2023 · NPR's Michel Martin talks to Donald Bogle about his book Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. She was a pioneering star of stage and screen in the 1940s, at a time when Hollywood was loathe to show either.
