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25. Juli 2011 · The Lena Horne number "LOVE" from the movie Ziegfeld Follies
- Early Life
- Career
- Civil Rights Activism
- Personal Life
- Death
- Legacy
- Discography
- Further Reading
- External Links
Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Both sides of her family were biracial African Americans. She belonged to the well-educated, upper stratumof Black New Yorkers at the time. She lived the first five years of her life in a brownstone at 519 Macon Street. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970), a one-time owner of...
Road to Hollywood
In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing. Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935). A few years later, Horne joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she made her first records, issued by Decca. After she separated from her firs...
Changes of direction
Horne became disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She made only two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (1950, which was also Eleanor Powell's final film); and the musical Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). She said she was "tired of being typecast as a Negro who stands against a pillar singing a song. I did that 20 times too often." She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with communist-backed groups....
Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights Movement. In 1941, she sang at Café Society, New York City's first integrated venue, and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of Black servicemen",...
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. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to Lennie H...
Lena Horne died of congestive heart failure at age 92 on May 9, 2010. Her funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York, where she had been a member. Thousands gathered and attendees included: Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Laure...
In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biographical film. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne had demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand", according to the Associated Pres...
Albums
1. Moanin' Low (RCA Victor, 1942) 2. Classics in Blue(Black & White, 1947) 3. Lena Horne Sings (Tops, 1953) 4. It's Love(RCA Victor, 1955) 5. Lena Horne(Tops, 1956) 6. Jamaicawith Ricardo Montalban (RCA Victor, 1957) 7. Stormy Weather(RCA Victor, 1957) 8. Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria(RCA Victor, 1957) 9. Lena and Iviewith Ivie Anderson (Jazztone, 1957) 10. I Feel So Smoochie(Lion, 1958) 11. Give the Lady What She Wants(RCA Victor, 1958) 12. Songs by Burke and Van Heusen(RCA Victor, 1959)...
Singles
1. "That's What Love Did to Me"/"I Take to You" (Decca) 2. "Stormy Weather" (1943) 3. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (1945) No. 21 U.S. Pop 4. "'Deed I Do" (1948) No. 26 U.S. Pop 5. "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955) No. 19 U.S. Pop (Disc Jockey Chart) 6. "Now!" (1963) No. 92 U.S. Pop 7. "Watch What Happens" with Gabor Szabo (1970) No. 119 U.S. Pop
Powers, Clare (June 1, 1955). "That Fabulous Lena". Down Beat. pp. 6, 20.Bogle, Donald (2023). Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN 9780762475209. OCLC 1361694201.Lena Horne at IMDbLena Horne at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLena Horne discography at DiscogsEntry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia Archived October 18, 2012, at the Wayback MachineLove Lyrics: Love can be a moment's madness / Love can be insane / Love can be a life of sadness and pain / Love can be a summer shower / Love can be the sun / Love can be two...
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 . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 2 Zitate. 3 Diskografie (Auswahl) 4 Filmografie. 5 Literatur. 6 Weblinks. 7 Einzelnachweise. Leben und Wirken.
11. Jan. 2005 · Love Songs [2005] Review by Richie Unterberger. Love Songs focuses on romantic songs cut by Lena Horne during her time as an RCA artist from the mid-'50s to the early '60s, recording with an assortment of orchestras. She interprets pieces by composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Cole ...
11. Jan. 2005 · Hör dir Love Songs: Lena Horne von Lena Horne auf Apple Music an. Streame Titel, unter anderem „Love Me or Leave Me“, „The Man I Love“ und mehr.
Lena Horne. Released 2000. Love Songs Tracklist. 1. It's Love Lyrics. 2. Love Me or Leave Me Lyrics. 4. You're the One Lyrics. 5. People Will Say We're in Love Lyrics. 7. Love Is the...
