LENA (LEE-nuh)
1.
American popular singer
2.
Actress Olin
Common
clue: Horne; Singer Horne; Entertainer Horne; Musical Horne;
Chanteuse Horne; “Stormy Weather” singer Horne;
Actress Olin; Olin of “Alias”; Olin of “Chocolat”
See
also: Lena
Olin
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My identity is
very clear to me now, I am a black woman ~ Lena Horne
Lena
Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an
American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
Horne
joined the mike 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.
Lena
Horne,
photographed by Carl
Van Vechten,
1941.
She
was the first African American performer to sign a long-term
contract with a major Hollywood studio, and became famous in 1943
for her rendition of Stormy
Weather in
the movie of the same name. She later appeared in a number of MGM
musicals, most notably Cabin
in the Sky,
but was never featured in a leading role due to her race and the
fact that films featuring her had to be reedited for showing in
southern states where theatres could not show films with
African-American performers. As a result, most of Horne's film
appearances were standalone sequences that had no bearing on the
rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the
storyline; a notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin
in the Sky,
though even then one of her numbers had to be cut because it was
considered too suggestive by the censors. She was originally
considered for the lead role in the 1951 version of Show
Boat but
Ava Gardner was given the role instead.
Disenchanted
with Hollywood by the mid-1950s, and increasingly focused on her
nightclub career, she only made two major appearances in MGM
films during the decade, 1950's Duchess
of Idaho (which
was also Eleanor Powell's film swan song), and the 1956 musical
Meet
Me in Las Vegas.
She returned to the screen three more times, playing Claire
Quintana in the 1969 film Death
of a Gunfighter,
Glinda the Good Witch in The
Wiz (1978),
with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and co-hosting the 1994 MGM
retrospective That's
Entertainment! III.
In
2003, ABC announced that pop star Janet Jackson would star as
Horne in a television biopic. In the weeks following Jackson's
so-called "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the
2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne demanded
Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives
resisted Horne’s demand," according to the Associated
Press report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade
newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter,
Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part."
In
January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a
decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put
on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the
legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note. Remixed by her
longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings sound wonderful
and include versions of such signature songs as Something To Live
For, Chelsea Bridge and Stormy Weather." The album,
originally titled Soul
but renamed Seasons
of My Life,
was recorded in 1999 but remained unreleased for six years.
Lena
Horne died on May 9, 2010, at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell Medical Center in New York City of heart failure,
according to her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. In addition to her
daughter, she is survived by granddaughters Jenny and Amy Lumet,
Lena Jones, Samadhi Jones, and grandsons, William and Thomas
Jones. On May 14, 2010, Horne's funeral took place at St.
Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York City. Thousands
gathered to mourn her, including singers Leontyne Price, Dionne
Warwick, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera and actresses Cicely Tyson,
Diahann Carroll, Lauren Bacall, Audra McDonald and Vanessa L.
Williams. Lena was laid to rest in the Horne Family Plot at The
Evergreen's Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
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