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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Lena Horne (b. 1917)
		Lena Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Edna Scottron and Edwin "Teddy" Horne on June 30, 1917.
		Horne's grandmother Cora Calhoun Horne was well known in her community as an active supporter of many civil rights causes and took Horne with her to meetings of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Urban League, and Suffragette organizations.
		Horne's film career was put on hold in the early 1950s, when she and many other politically active performers suspected to be Communists were fllisted as a result of the McCarthy hearings in the U.S. Congress.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1691 (956 words)

	SHE PROFILES: LENA HORNE
		Lena Horne, had an ageless beauty and a very appealing personality, however, she was never really a jazz singer as much as a superior pop vocalist (this is mostly because she did not improvise).
		Horne started performing when she was six years old, she sang and danced at the Cotton Club as early as 1934, and performed with Noble Sissle's Orchestra (1935-36).
		Lena Horne (1917-present) was born on June 17, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.harlemlive.org /shethang/profiles/lenahorne/lena.html (592 words)

	VH1.com : Lena Horne : Biography
		Horne recalled in her 1965 autobiography Lena (written with Richard Schickel) that she visited her mother occasionally and even made her stage debut as a young child in the play Madame X in Philadelphia.
		After a couple of years, Horne's mother took her on the road with her, and from the age of six or seven to the age of 11 she was raised in various locations in the South and the Midwest by her mother, relatives, and paid companions, with frequent trips back to Brooklyn.
		Horne, meanwhile, had moved her show to the Cocoanut Grove in Hollywood in June, where she recorded a live EP, Lena Horne at the Cocoanut Grove, and announced that she was leaving nightclub work temporarily.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/horne_lena/bio.jhtml (3595 words)

	MSN Encarta - Lena Horne
		Horne, Lena, born in 1917, American popular singer and actress, known for her elegant style and striking appearance.
		Horne was the first fl performer to sign a long-term contract with a major motion-picture studio in the United States.
		Born in Brooklyn, New York, she began her professional career at the age of 16 as a chorus dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where she was exposed to important American artists such as jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington and jazz singer Billie Holiday.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761584561/Horne_Lena.html (424 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Lena Horne
		Lena Horne received a special Tony Award for distinguished achievement in the theater for her one-woman Broadway hit Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music which opened to rave reviews in 1981 and played to capacity audiences there for 14 months before going on tour.
		Horne admitted that she married Hayton not because she loved him, but because "he had more entree than a fl man." But as their married years went by--and there were 24 of them before his death in 1971--she "learned to love him because of how good he was to me and patient."
		Horne has also always found time to devote to the causes in which she truly believes, and starting with the civil rights movement in the 1960s, she had company in her battles for equality.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3743&source_type=A (971 words)

	Lena Horne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer.
		Horne was married to Lennie Hayton, a white, Jewish American for many years until his death.
		In her as-told-to autobigoraphy Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an inter-racial married couple.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lena_Horne (672 words)

	Black History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City.
		Horne was married from 1937 to 1944 to Louis J. Jones.
		One of her albums, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria (1957), was a long-time best-seller, and her first featured performance on Broadway—in the musical Jamaica (1957)—won her a New York Drama Critics' Poll Award in 1958.
	search.eb.com /Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=3001 (319 words)

	Extravagant Crowd \| Lena Horne
		Now considered a jazz icon, Lena Horne was one of the top African-American entertainers during the 1940s and 1950s, and in 1981 her Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music became the longest-running one-woman show on Broadway.
		As a child, Horne was abandoned by her parents and was raised by her grandmother, a civil rights activist who enrolled her granddaughter in the NAACP at age two.
		Horne’s first professional job was at Harlem’s famous Cotton Club; she was hired less for her singing ability than because her youth, beauty, light skin, and “good hair” were appealing to the club’s white clientele.
	beinecke.library.yale.edu /cvvpw/gallery/horne.html (477 words)

	NewStandard: 11/25/96
		Horne wears dark glasses and a turban that covers hair, which she calls the color of cigarette ash at the bottom of a cup.
		Horne says she was frustrated and angry through much of her career, because of the way fl people were treated.
		Horne and her husband, Hollywood composer-arranger Lennie Hayton, separated in the 1960s, she says, "We were only separated for expediency, when I went south in Civil Rights days and he stayed home and did his writing.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-96/11-25-96/b02ae044.htm (670 words)

	American Masters . Lena Horne \| PBS
		LENA HORNE AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA, recorded in 1957, is still considered to be one of her best.
		Though the conservative atmosphere of the 1950s took their toll on Horne, by the 1960s she had returned to the public eye and was again a major cultural figure.
		Horne had found in her growing audience a renewed sense of purpose.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/horne_l.html (785 words)

	Lena Horne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lena Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, NY on June 30, 1917.
		Lena was one of the most popular singers of the 40s and 50s and one of her albums, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria was a long-time best seller.
		Lena received the Kennedy Center Award for lifetime contribution to the arts in 1984 and in 1989 she won the Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
	multirace.org /celebs/celeb23.htm (212 words)

	Lena Horne receives honorary degree
		Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn on June 30, 1917.
		Horne could not stay at the same hotel as the other band members, could not use the theatre's dressing room and had to change in the bus, and could not sit on stage with the other musicians between musical numbers.
		Horne was also listed in "Red Channels", a publication that kept a count of "subversive" people in the entertaining industry.
	www.angelfire.com /ny2/lenahorne/biography.html (1030 words)

	Solid! -- Lena Horne
		Never really a jazz singer, since she does not improvise, Lena Horne is one of the great pop vocalists of all time.
		She was unable to stay in the same hotels as the rest of the band, she wasn't allowed to use the dressing rooms at theatres, and she wasn't allowed to sit on stage with the band in between numbers.
		Horne left Hollywood in the early 1950s to concentrate on her singing.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_hornel.html (350 words)

	Denny Jackson's Lena Horne Page
		When Lena was seven, her mother returned and the two traveled the state where she was enrolled in numerous schools.
		If Lena Horne had never made a movie, her music career would have been enough to have left her a legend in the entertainment industry, but films were icing on the cake.
		In 1943, Lena appeared in CABIN IN THE SKY, which is regarded as one of the finest performances of her career.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/horne.html (778 words)

	Amazon.com: Evening With Lena Horne: DVD: Lena Horne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lovely Lena is as youthful as ever in her late 70's for the mid 90's live set for AandE at an intimate supper club in NY, with Mike Renzi's trio plus occasionally the Count Basie Orchestra hlps out.
		Lena shows her vocal powers on Yesturday When I Was Young, and holds a long note on Lady Is A Tramp, and skips Stormy Weather altogether.
		Lena is a timeless beuaty and I can't wait to see what she does next.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305079919?v=glance (385 words)

	Lena Horne
		Horne's grandmother, a woman of broad background and education, an early suffragette and civil rights activist, is to this day one of Horne's primary influences.
		Horne went to work as a teenager, making her debut at sixteen as a dancer at Harlem's famed Cotton Club, where she formed lasting relationships with such greats as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford and many other notable artists.
		By this point, Horne enjoyed a fine reputation as a singer and entertainer, which led to numerous opportunities like the Little Troc in Hollywood where Lena was spotted by an MGM talent scout in the early 1940s, who arranged for a screen test.
	www.kenyada.com /lena.htm (2323 words)

	World Book \|\| Lena Horne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lena Horne (1917-...) is an American singer and actress.
		In 1983, Horne received the Spingarn Medal in recognition of her achievements.
		The Lena Horne Biography, by Blue Note Records, includes information about her life and a listing of her recordings.
	www2.worldbook.com /features/aamusic/html/horne.htm (179 words)

	Online NewsHour: Lena Horne's 80th Birthday-- June 30, 1997
		Horne married for the second time--to composer Lennie Hayton, a white man--and the two moved to Paris, where interracial marriages were more accepted.
		LENA HORNE: Nobody fl or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
		LENA HORNE: (Singing) I'm going to love you like nobody loves you--but that ain't what I'm gonna sing--(cheers and applause)--Baby, I can't live to love you as long as I want to love you, as long as I promise you, Baby, I'm gonna love you as long as I live.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/june97/horne_6-30.html (1656 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Lena Horne
		But Horne was troubled by the fact that her celebrity image did not seem to match her personal beliefs.
		Horne's autobiography, Lena, written in 1965, captures all these experiences in memorable detail, reading like a textbook on the combined effects of race and class in American cultural life during the twentieth century.
		Horne found greater satisfaction in all-fl films like the fanciful religious fable Cabin in the Sky (1943) and Stormy Weather (1946), for which she was leant to Twentieth Century Fox.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200565 (740 words)

	Rock & Roll Library - Lena Horne's home page. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York.
		Horne eventually returned to Brooklyn and lived with a family friend after her grandparents passed away.
		Horne then moved onto the nightclub circuit and was regularly broadcast on the radio.
	www.rocklibrary.com /Library/Entity.aspx?id=8ca69419-006c-4944-808f-d5597711b519 (938 words)

	Class Act: Lena Horne
		Lena had to quit school and become the family breadwinner with a salary of just $25 weekly.
		In 1938, Lena was given one of the leads in The Duke of Tops (Ethel), at the suggestion of an agent who had seen her at the Cotton Club.
		Lena did have two more great roles in the '40s, though: the sexy, scheming Georgia Brown in Cabin in the Sky (1943) and Julie in the mini-production of "Show Boat" in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946).
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /horne.htm (747 words)

	Solid! -- Lena Horne: Stormy Weather
		This is perhaps the best collection of Lena Horne material released to date, especially if you're a fan of music from the 1930s and 1940s.
		Later in her career Lena developed a louder, more out-front vocal style which dominated the music, as was common in the post-war era.
		Featured on this CD are two songs each from Lena's stints with Charlie Barnet and Artie Shaw, as well as work under her own name during the war years, including the famous ''Stormy Weather,'' a song forever linked to her and the highlight of the album.
	www.parabrisas.com /m_hornel1.html (307 words)

	Horne, Lena
		Born on June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, Lena Calhoun Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City.
		In 1942 Horne moved to Los Angeles, after which she appeared in such movies as Cabin in the Sky (1943), Meet Me In Las Vegas (1956), and The Wiz (1974).
		One of her albums, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria (1957), was a long-time bestseller, and her first featured performance on Broadway--in the musical Jamaica (1957)--won her a New York Drama Critics Poll Award in 1958.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Horne_Lena_Calhoun.html (309 words)

	Lena Horne : Back in My Baby's Arms - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After a long stint at RCA Victor, Horne left that label in 1962 as musical trends caused her sales to diminish and her increased interest in political issues began to compete with her career as an entertainer.
		The single's B-side was "Silent Spring," a song written by Horne's longtime collaborators Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg that meditated on the murder of four fl girls in a church bombing in Birmingham, AL, on September 15, 1963.
		Horne, performing before an orchestra, gives the songs her usual precise, impassioned readings.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1674351,00.html (376 words)

	African American Registry: Lena Horne, singer/actress extraordinaire . . .
		From Brooklyn, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne’s father, Ted Horne, left home when she was only three, and her mother, Edna Scottron, soon after, leaving the child in the care of her paternal grandmother, Cora Calhoune Horne, a civil rights activist and suffragist in Brooklyn.
		Lena Horne left New York to perform at the Trocadero Club in California.
		She won a Grammy for the album based on her award-winning show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music that began in 1981 and became the longest running one-woman show in Broadway history.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/253/Lena_Horne...geractress_extraordinaire (488 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although Lena Horne never had the movie career she deserved, she managed to make an electrifying impact in her guest appearances and occasional acting roles.
		Horne was fllisted by the film and television industries in the 1950s, possibly because of her sympathetic relationship with Paul Robeson.
		Horne's MGM contract began with one of her "specialty" appearances, singing "Just One of These Things" in the Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie (1942), starring Ann Sothern.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,99335\|99336\|\|,00.html (507 words)

	LENA HORNE ZAPS JANET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Horne refused to return her contract for the pic until ABC guaranteed that Jackson was off the project, which is being produced by Storyline and Sony Pictures Television.
		Lena Horne was beautiful in her day, and still looks pretty good now.
		Lena flashed her pearly whites, and treated her audience to a class act.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1084475/posts (2581 words)

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