Lena Horne
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 30, 1917
- Died
- May 9, 2010 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died on May 9, 2010 in New York City. During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.
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Filmography
Honor Coles, Le Danseur De Claquettes Distingue
Movie · as Self
Hollywood Black
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie · as Self (archival footage)
Sid & Judy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Movie · as Self - Singer (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Movie · as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
Movie
An Evening With Lena Horne
Movie · as self
Judy Garland Duets
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Incomparable Lena Horne
Movie
The Harlem Renaissance
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Movie
It's Black Entertainment
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Movie · as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie · as Self - Host
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Aretha Franklin: Duets
Movie · as Self
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Different World
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
Movie · as Self
American Masters
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie · as Self
DTV: Golden Oldies
Movie · as Self
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Movie
The Cosby Show
TV · as Lena Horne · 1 ep
Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Night of 100 Stars
Movie · as Self
Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President
Movie · as Self
The Wiz
Movie · as Glinda the Good
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Muppet Show
TV · as Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell · 1 ep
That's Entertainment!
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Keep U.S. Beautiful
Movie · as Self
Keep US Beautiful
TV · 1 ep
Sanford and Son
TV · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Flip Wilson Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Death of a Gunfighter
Movie · as Claire Quintana
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV · as Self (uncredited) · 4 eps
Now!
Movie · as Self (voice)
The Dean Martin Show
TV · 3 eps
The Hollywood Palace
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Judy Garland Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Password
TV · 2 eps
The DuPont Show of the Week
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Beyond the Riviera
Movie
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
Movie · as Self - Singer
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
The All-Star Christmas Show
Movie · as Self
Kraft Music Hall
TV · 1 ep
The Twentieth Century
TV · 1 ep
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Movie · as Lena Horne
The Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self - Singer · 1 ep
The Perry Como Show
TV · 5 eps
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Recipient / Performer, Self - Presenter, Self - Co-Hostess · 1 ep
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Movie · as Self
Music 55
TV · 1 ep
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
TV · 1 ep
MGM Parade
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Duchess of Idaho
Movie · as Lena Horne
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Your Show of Shows
TV · 2 eps
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Words and Music
Movie · as Lena Horne
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Till the Clouds Roll By
Movie · as Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne
Mantan Messes Up
Movie · as Lene
Swingtime Jamboree
Movie · as Herself
Studio Visit
Movie · as Herself
Ziegfeld Follies
Movie · as Lena Horne (segment "Love")
Harlem Hotshots
Movie · as (archive footage)
Broadway Rhythm
Movie · as Fernway de la Fer
Two Girls and a Sailor
Movie · as Lena Horne
Boogie-Woogie Dream
Movie
Stormy Weather
Movie · as Selina Rogers
Thousands Cheer
Movie · as Lena Horne
Cabin in the Sky
Movie · as Georgia Brown
I Dood It
Movie · as Herself
Swing Fever
Movie · as Herself
Panama Hattie
Movie · as As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)
The Duke Is Tops
Movie · as Ethel Andrews