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Lena Horne: Your memories – BBC
With the death of Lena Horne yesterday, there is an end of era of American singing and dancing. At the age of sixteen, she joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club. Before moving to Hollywood, she was a nightclub performer there. Lena made her …
With a singing career spanning 60 years, she became the first black sex symbol in the 1930s. In 1943, she played Selina Rogers in the all-black musical film Stormy Weather. The title song from the film became a major hit and also her signature tune
Of her early life in Hollywood: ""I was a test case," she said." By the mid-1950s, Horne – who in 1947 married composer and director Lennie Hayton in secret in Paris, because interracial marriages were illegal in California – left Hollywood, "bitter," she said, referring to Hollywood studios. As she recounted in her successful, Tony-winning 1981 one-woman Broadway show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, the star was born in 1917 just a person working in movies. "We were the chic, to-be-seen-with couple. In the end, Hollywood simply wasn't really ready for a beauty of color. Horne's politics led to her being blacklisted in the 1950s. "When I stopped trying to break barriers, that's when I looked around and saw a lot of good white people who would stand against injustice." "I saw that and I softened up." Not until the middle 1950s did Horne begin to mellow.
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