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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 ...
28. Juli 2020 · 1. Lena Horne began performing at Harlem’s white-dominated Cotton Club when she was 16 years old. After a failed attempt to make it big as an actress on her own, Edna Louise Scottron—Lena ...
Lena Horne. 1917 - 2010. Legendary singer/actor Lena Horne has fought against racism in the entertainment industry throughout her career and against racial discrimination in this country throughout her life. She entered show business at the age of sixteen, and in 1942, became the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract ...
Lena Horne. Actress: Cabin in the Sky. Lena Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. In her biography she stated that, on the day she was born, her father was in the midst of a card game trying to get money to pay the hospital costs. Her parents divorced while she was still a toddler. Her mother left later in order to find work as an...
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.
11. Nov. 1983 · James Haskins, Kathleen Benson. 3.79. 19 ratings3 reviews. A biography of Lena Horne, she emerges a stalwart forever standing her ground. Thorough. Authorative..—Ebony. Genres Biography. 230 pages, Paperback. First published November 11, 1983.
Lena Horne had to face many challenges throughout her life being a black woman in the media business. Despite her great fame, Horne continued to experience racial discrimination and in the late 1940s she sued several restaurants and theaters for racism and also began working with Paul Robeson in the Progressive Citizens of America, a political group opposing this kind of discrimination.
