Lena Horne
Born: 1917-06-30 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 2010-05-09
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
- How It Feels to Be Free as Self (archival footage)
2019
- Sid & Judy as Self (archive footage)
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom as Self - Singer (archive footage)
2018
- Storm in My Heart as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
2006
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2 as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Judy Garland Duets as Self (archive footage)
- Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
- An Evening With Lena Horne as self
2004
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
- The Harlem Renaissance as Self (archive footage)
- Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
- The Incomparable Lena Horne
2002
- It's Black Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand as Self
1996
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self
1994
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment! III as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1993
- Aretha Franklin: Duets as Self
1990
- You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story as Self (archive footage)
1987
- A Different World as Self
1986
- American Masters as Self
- Sesame Street: Learning About Letters as Self
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- The Cosby Show as Lena Horne
- DTV: Golden Oldies as Self
1983
- Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- The Wiz as Glinda the Good
1977
- Sesame Street at Night? as Self (archive footage)
1976
- The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
1973
1972
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1970
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1969
- Death of a Gunfighter as Claire Quintana
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1965
- The Dean Martin Show
- Now! as Self (voice)
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
1963
- The Judy Garland Show as Self
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Password
- The DuPont Show of the Week as Self
1960
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies as Self - Singer
- Beyond the Riviera
1959
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
1958
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Recipient / Performer
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Singer
- Meet Me in Las Vegas as Lena Horne
- The Perry Como Show
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Your Show of Shows
- Duchess of Idaho as Lena Horne
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Words and Music as Lena Horne
1946
- Swingtime Jamboree as Herself
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne
- Studio Visit as Herself
- Mantan Messes Up as Lene
1945
- Ziegfeld Follies as Lena Horne (segment "Love")
- Harlem Hotshots as (archive footage)
1944
- Broadway Rhythm as Fernway de la Fer
- Two Girls and a Sailor as Specialty
- Boogie-Woogie Dream
1943
- Thousands Cheer as Lena Horne
- Swing Fever as Herself
- Cabin in the Sky as Georgia Brown
- Stormy Weather as Selina Rogers
- I Dood It as Herself
1942
- Panama Hattie as As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)
1938
- The Duke Is Tops as Ethel Andrews