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Music. Even in her eighties, the legendary lena horne has a qualityof timelessness about her. Elegant and wise, she personifies
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Extractions: E ven in her eighties, the legendary Lena Horne has a quality of timelessness about her. Elegant and wise, she personifies both the glamour of Hollywood and the reality of a lifetime spent battling racial and social injustice. Pushed by an ambitious mother into the chorus line of the Cotton Club when she was sixteen, and maneuvered into a film career by the N.A.A.C.P., she was the first African American signed to a long-term studio contract. In her rise beyond Hollywood's racial stereotypes of maids, butlers, and African natives, she achieved true stardom on the silver screen, and became a catalyst for change even beyond the glittery fringes of studio life. Billie Holiday , Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington . She also met Harold Arlen, who would write her biggest hit, "Stormy Weather." For the next five years she performed in New York nightclubs, on Broadway, and touring with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra. Singing with Barnet's primarily white swing band, Horne was one of the first black women to successfully work on both sides of the color line. Lena gives us some attitude.
A Celebration Of Lena Horne - By Mitali
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The Kennedy Center Honors
But lena horne fought backand she fought her way to the top of her profession.
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Extractions: (singer, born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, New York) Lena Horne received a special Tony Award for distinguished achievement in the theater for her one-woman Broadway hit Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music which opened to rave reviews in 1981 and played to capacity audiences there for 14 months before going on tour. She reached that pinnacle of her 50-year-career via a road that started in the Harlem of the 1930s and was bombarded with stormy weather. In the early days, she was referred to as a "cafe au lait Hedy Lamarr" and a "chocolate chanteuse." Even after she achieved stardom as a singer, she was refused a room at the hotels where she was performingeven in New York City as late as 1942because she was black. In the Hollywood of the 1940s, she says she was invited to parties only with the unwritten understanding that she provide the entertainment. When her stepfather was physically abused by the club owners for pushing the idea of her singing there, she decided that she "had to get out."
Lena Horne At Reel Classics
Audio clips from Stormy Weather, The Lady is a Tramp and Where or When, with a photograph and links.
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Extractions: Lena Horne Filmography Downloads Image Credits Her Address A picture of Horne in the mid-1960s. This page is still under construction. "Just One of Those Things" (clip) from PANAMA HATTIE (1942) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "Stormy Weather" (clip) from STORMY WEATHER (1943) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "Life's Full O'Consequence" (clip) from CABIN IN THE SKY (1943) sung with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "Honeysuckle Rose" (clip) from THOUSANDS CHEER (1943) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine" (clip) from TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (1946) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "The Lady is a Tramp" (clip) from WORDS AND MUSIC (1948) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "Where or When" (clip) from WORDS AND MUSIC (1948) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records "Baby, Come Out of the Clouds" (clip) from THE DUCHESS OF IDAHO (1950) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records (For help opening any of the above files, visit the
Kennedy Center Honors
Photograph and detailed biography of the artist.
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Extractions: For the unique and extremely valuable contributions they have made to the cultural life of our nation," said Kennedy Center Chairman James A. Johnson, "we honor an actor whose extraordinary range and power have made him an American institution, a brilliant musician who for three decades has led one of the world's foremost opera companies to unsurpassed artistic excellence, one of the most prolific and influential songwriters of our era, a musical theater star of the highest magnitude, and a luminous film actress who for nearly 60 years has been a Hollywood icon treasured by millions throughout the world." The annual Honors Gala has become the highlight of the Washington cultural year. The 2002 Honorees will be saluted by stars from the world of the performing arts at a gala performance in the Kennedy Center's Opera House on Sunday evening, December 8, to be attended by the President of the United States and Mrs. Bush, and by artists from around the world. The President and the First Lady will receive the Honorees and members of the Artists Committee, who nominate them, along with the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees at the White House on Sunday evening, December 8, prior to the gala performance. A supper dance in the Grand Foyer, underwritten for two decades by Merrill Lynch, will conclude the festive weekend.
Lena Horne
Kenyada's tribute to his dad and lena horne, with biographical information from Bluenote Records.
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Extractions: but he ...did ...not ...Play. During one of his rare lighter moments, after having demonstrated for his two sons a dance called the Lindy Hop (it looked like what was later called The Hustle), Dad was remembering stories from "back in the day". In one particular story about his military days during WWII, he told us about how entertainer Lena Horne was Da Bomb of the Day, and how he had a crush on her since he met her when she toured military bases. He told us he had danced with Ms. Horne at a servicemen's club at Ft. Lee, Virginia. My brother and I looked at each other, and then back at him. "Yeah, Dad, sure, you danced with Lena Horne, riiiiight."
Lena Horne
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Lena Horne Receives Honorary Degree
lena horne received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Yale's 297th Commencementon May 25, 1998. lena horne was born in Brooklyn on June 30, 1917.
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Denny Jackson's Lena Horne Page
Brief biography and several photographs of the artist.
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Extractions: Lena Calhoun Horne was born on 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, ultimately, divorced while she was still a toddler. Her mother left later in order to find work in the acting field and Lena was left in the care of her grandparents. When Lena was seven, her mother returned and the two traveled the state where she was enrolled in numerous schools. For a time, Lena was, also, enrolled in schools in Florida, Georgia, and Ohio. Later she was to return to Brooklyn. She quit school when she was 14 and got her first stage job, dancing and later singing at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem when she was 16. The Cotton Club was a theater in which black performers played before white audiences. (The Cotton Club was immortalized in the film of the same name in 1984.) She was in good hands at the club, especially when people such as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington took her under their wing and helped her over the rough spots in the world of show business. Before long, Lena's singing was playing before packed houses. If Lena Horne had never made a movie, her music career would have been enough to have left her a legend in the entertainment industry, but films were icing on the cake. After a few appearances on Broadway, Hollywood did come calling.
Lena Horne
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Lena Horne
Detailed filmography and TV appearances from Internet Movie Database.
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Biography For Lena Horne
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Creative Quotations From Lena Horne (1917-____)
A selection of inspiring quotes from lena horne.
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Extractions: Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death. It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do. It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
include More Than You Know (1946), lena horne Sings Your Requests (1963), and An Evening with lena horne (1994).
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Extractions: She began performing at age six, and by 16 was singing and dancing at Harlem's Cotton Club, where she became an acolyte of Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. She performed with Noble Sissle's Orchestra and Teddy Wilson's big band. Horne's movie career began in 1938, when she appeared in The Duke Is Tops. She won critical acclaim for her performance in Stormy Weather (1943), and for singing the movie's title song. Although she was the first African-American woman to sign a long-term movie contract with a major studio (MGM), Horne's films were shot so that her scenes could be cut out before been shown in the South. An outspoken foe of discrimination, Horne was blacklisted in the 1950s for condemning racism, as well as for her association with Paul Robeson, a performer with Communist ties.
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She won a Grammy for the album based on her awardwinning show lena horne The Ladyand Her Music which began in 1981 and became the longest running one-woman
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Lena Horne
Entertainment BiographiesH lena horne jazz and pop singer, dancer,and actress Born 6/30/1917 Birthplace Brooklyn, NY. She began
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