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    Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood ...

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Lena Horne Movies . A long run at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel nightclub in 1943 gave Horne’s career a boost. She was featured in Life magazine and became the highest-paid Black entertainer at the time ...

  3. May 4, 1999 · Lena Horne (born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died May 9, 2010, New York City) was an American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s. 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 two years at the Cotton Club she appeared with such ...

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  4. Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) Even in her eighties, the legendary Lena Horne has a quality of timelessness about her. ... American Masters is an award-winning signature PBS series ...

  5. Lena Horne, who broke new ground for black performers when she signed a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday ...

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  7. May 10, 2010 · Arts May 10, 2010 11:18 AM EDT. Groundbreaking singer, performer and film star Lena Horne died Sunday in New York at the age of 92. Horne, the first African American to sign a long-term contract ...

  8. May 14, 2010 · In tribute to Lena Horne (June 30, 1917–May 9, 2010) Lena Horne was an American treasure, a cultural icon whose career achievements and social legacy challenged and transformed America’s notions about race and culture. A Renaissance woman, she lived and entertained during an era when women and “Negroes” were constrained by limited ...

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