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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1917-06-30

Died: 2010-05-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1938	The Duke Is Tops	Ethel Andrews	60
2	1942	Panama Hattie	As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)	40
3	1943	Cabin in the Sky	Georgia Brown	65
4	1943	Stormy Weather	Selina Rogers	69
5	1943	I Dood It	Herself	35
6	1943	Thousands Cheer	Lena Horne	64
7	1943	Swing Fever	Herself	50
8	1944	Boogie-Woogie Dream		0
9	1944	Broadway Rhythm	Fernway de la Fer	55
10	1944	Two Girls and a Sailor	Specialty	57
11	1945	Harlem Hotshots	(archive footage)	0
12	1945	Ziegfeld Follies	Lena Horne (segment "Love")	61
13	1946	Mantan Messes Up	Lene	0
14	1946	Swingtime Jamboree	Herself	0
15	1946	Studio Visit	Herself	35
16	1946	Till the Clouds Roll By	Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne	57
17	1948	Words and Music	Lena Horne	57
18	1950	Duchess of Idaho	Lena Horne	50
19	1955	A.N.T.A. Album of 1955	Self	0
20	1956	Meet Me in Las Vegas	Lena Horne	45
21	1960	The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies	Self - Singer	0
22	1960	Beyond the Riviera		0
23	1965	Now!	Self (voice)	62
24	1969	Death of a Gunfighter	Claire Quintana	64
25	1974	That's Entertainment!	(archive footage)	73
26	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
27	1977	Sesame Street at Night?	Self (archive footage)	0
28	1978	The Wiz	Glinda the Good	60
29	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
30	1984	DTV: Golden Oldies	Self	0
31	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
32	1986	Sesame Street: Learning About Letters	Self	0
33	1990	You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story	Self (archive footage)	0
34	1993	Aretha Franklin: Duets	Self	80
35	1994	Sesame Street \| All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!	Self (archive footage)	70
36	1994	That's Entertainment! III	Self - Co-Host / Narrator	70
37	1999	Paul Robeson: Here I Stand	Self	0
38	2002	It's Black Entertainment	Self (archive footage)	80
39	2004	The Harlem Renaissance	Self (archive footage)	60
40	2004	TV in Black: The First Fifty Years	Self (archive footage)	40
41	2004	Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover		0
42	2004	The Incomparable Lena Horne		0
43	2005	Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas		0
44	2005	An Evening With Lena Horne	self	0
45	2005	Judy Garland Duets	Self (archive footage)	0
46	2006	Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2	Self (archive footage)	0
47	2010	Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days	Self (uncredited) (archive footage)	0
48		Honor Coles, Le Danseur De Claquettes Distingue	Self	0
49	2018	Storm in My Heart	Self (archive footage)	0
50	2019	The Green Book: Guide to Freedom	Self - Singer (archive footage)	77
51	2019	Sid & Judy	Self (archive footage)	74
52	2021	How It Feels to Be Free	Self (archival footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
3	1950	Your Show of Shows		63
4	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
5	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
6	1955	Music 55		0
7	1955	Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium		0
8	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Recipient / Performer	51
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Co-Hostess	51
10	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
11	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host	51
12	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Singer	56
13	1956	The Perry Como Show		73
14	1957	The Twentieth Century		80
15	1958	Kraft Music Hall		47
16	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self - Host	73
17	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self	73
18	1961	The DuPont Show of the Week	Self	60
19	1961	Password		73
20	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
21	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
22	1963	The Judy Garland Show	Self	80
23	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self	45
24	1965	The Dean Martin Show		73
25	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self (uncredited)	65
26	1970	The Flip Wilson Show	Self	48
27	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
28	1972	Sanford and Son		74
29	1973	Keep US Beautiful		0
30	1976	The Muppet Show	Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell	80
31	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
32	1983	Reading Rainbow	Herself - Narrator (voice)	84
33	1984	The Cosby Show	Lena Horne	70
34	1986	American Masters	Self	74
35	1987	A Different World	Self	71
36	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self	35

Lena Horne

Film

Television