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1 lug 2020 · When a 25-year-old Horne told her wealthy father, Teddy, that Walter White, then head of the NAACP, was urging her to take a stab at Hollywood stardom in the early 1940s, this son of a serious ...
6 feb 2018 · Ha continuato ad apparire in ruoli di cantante e ballerina negli anni '40. La canzone caratteristica di Lena Horne, tratta dall'omonimo film del 1943, è "Stormy Weather". Lo canta due volte nel film. La prima volta, si presenta con una terrosità e innocenza. Alla fine, è una canzone sulla perdita e sulla disperazione.
1 set 2005 · Lena Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Edna Scottron and Edwin “Teddy” Horne on June 30, 1917. Her parents separated when she was a child, and she lived with her paternal grandparents and uncle. Horne’s grandmother Cora Calhoun Horne was well known in her community as an active supporter of many civil rights causes and took ...
31 ott 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.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and Broadway. A groundbreaking African-American performer, Horne advocated for civil ...
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.
20 giu 2022 · Lena Horne performs at the Poplar Creek Music Theater In Hoffman Estates on July 30, 1982. Paul Natkin/GI. Lena Horne was a trailblazer during her lifetime, becoming one of the first Black female ...
