Lena: A Biography of Lena Horne. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. "There is a consistent fight, and it's not like you get to a place, and then you put it down, and you're done," Lumet explained. was the main reason she lost out on playing the mulatto "Julie" in Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. They lived in various parts of the ", The palpable anger among today's activists would also please Horne because "Grandma had to hide her anger," Lumet said. But they could put mine., Touring Army camps for the U.S.O., Ms. Horne was outspoken in her criticism of the way black soldiers were treated. But it also, as Mrs. Buckley put it, sheds light on ''America's historic family secret, the story of black life that has never been told: that of the typical black middle-class family, the black bourgeoisie. She used the word performer, not pianist. Ms. Horne was stuffed into one all-star film musical after another Thousands Cheer (1943), Broadway Rhythm (1944), Two Girls and a Sailor (1944), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Words and Music (1948) to sing a song or two that, she later recalled, could easily be snipped from the movie when it played in the South, where the idea of an African-American performer in anything but a subservient role in a movie with an otherwise all-white cast was unthinkable. She is survived by her daughter Gail Lumet Buckley, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Lena Horne's Long, Hard Climb | Vanity Fair Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a banker/professional gambler and an actress. Her father weighed in, too. Please try again later. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Lena Horne (52189627)? Horne responded, "No," and left the room to make herself a sandwich. ", These moments that you think, Wow, this is history, it was just her life.. In 1942, she got her big break when she got the job of being a singer at a famous Hollywood nightclub named Felix Young Little Trot.
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