Lena Horne
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.
Filmography (89 titles)
3.7ShowHollywood Black
Self (archive footage) · 2024
MovieHow It Feels to Be Free
Self (archival footage) · 2021
7.4MovieSid & Judy
Self (archive footage) · 2019
7.8MovieThe Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Self - Singer (archive footage) · 2019
Storm in My Heart
Self (archive footage) · 2018
MovieSesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Self (uncredited) (archive footage) · 2010
MovieJazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
Self (archive footage) · 2006
MovieJudy Garland Duets
Self (archive footage) · 2005
MovieSarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005
MovieAn Evening With Lena Horne
self · 2005
MovieThe Incomparable Lena Horne
2004
MovieSesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
6.0MovieThe Harlem Renaissance
Self (archive footage) · 2004
5.3MovieTV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage) · 2004
8.7MovieIt's Black Entertainment
Self (archive footage) · 2002
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage) · 2001
8.0MoviePaul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self · 1999
4.1ShowThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self · 1996
8.0MovieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage) · 1995
7.0MovieThat's Entertainment! III
Self - Co-Host / Narrator · 1994
7.0MovieSesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage) · 1994
8.3MovieAretha Franklin: Duets
Self · 1993
MovieYou're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self (archive footage) · 1990
9.0MovieBenny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Self (archive footage) · 1990
7.1ShowA Different World
Self · 1987
7.0ShowAmerican Masters
Self · 1986
7.0MovieSesame Street: Learning About Letters
Self · 1986
6.8MovieNight of 100 Stars II
Self · 1985
7.0ShowThe Cosby Show
Lena Horne · 1984
MovieDTV: Golden Oldies
Self · 1984