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28. Nov. 2023 · Donald Bogle celebrates her life and her achievements in the new biography “Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed” and joins Ben Mankiewicz for an evening of films starring the legendary performer. Before arriving in Hollywood, Horne made her feature debut in The Duke is Tops (1938), a low-budget “race film” produced for Black theaters.
14. Jan. 2021 · Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, NY. June 30, 1917. Dropped out of school and began performing at the Cotton Club in Harlem (age 16). 1933. Broadway debut in the fall production of ...
Lena Horne (1941; Foto von Carl Van Vechten) 1941 sang sie im Café Society mit Teddy Wilson ( Out of Nowhere). Nach einem halben Jahr zog sie nach Los Angeles, wo sie im Club „Little Troc“ sang. Schließlich erhielt sie einen Vertrag bei MGM, bedingte sich jedoch aus, nicht die üblichen Rollen für schwarze Schauspieler wie Zimmermädchen ...
14. Mai 2010 · This interview originally aired Nov. 25, 1986. When Lena Horne first signed with MGM, the studio wanted her to play a maid. But on the advice of Paul Robeson and her father, she refused. Fresh Air ...
After they died, Horne lived with a friend of her mother's, Laura Rollock. Shortly thereafter Edna remarried and Horne moved in with her mother and her mother's new husband. The constant moving resulted in Lena having an education that was often interrupted. She attended various small-town, segregated (separated by race) school's when in the South with her mother. In Brooklyn she attended the ...
Lena Horne en 1997. Lena Horne participant à la Marche sur Washington en 1963. La carrière de Lena Horne est marquée contre le racisme et les lois ségrégationnistes 29 . Dès son enfance, elle subit le racisme, pour les blancs elle n'était qu'une « négresse » et pour certains de ses camarades afro-américains elle était trop blanche 22.
2. Apr. 2015 · A friend got Lena an interview with Arthur Freed at M-G-M. Lena Horne had been perfectly groomed to play the role of a non-stereotype black person. She spoke perfect English, not black dialect. She was a well bred and well educated lady through and through, not a tramp or a whore. She auditioned for Freed and then Louis B Mayer himself. Both ...
