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{{Short description|American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)}}
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| birth_name         = Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1917|06|30}}
| birth_place        = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2010|05|09|1917|06|30}}
| death_place        = New York City, U.S.
| occupation         = {{hlist|Singer|dancer|actress|activist}}
| years_active       = 1933–2003
| party              = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
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* {{marriage|[[Lennie Hayton]]|1947|1971|end=d.}}
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| children           = 2
| relatives          = [[Jenny Lumet]] (granddaughter)<br />[[Jake Cannavale]] (great-grandson)
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| background          = solo_singer
| instrument          = Vocals
| origin              = [[Harlem]], New York City
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* [[Soul music|soul]]
* [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]
* [[traditional pop]]
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* [[MGM]]
* [[RCA Victor]]
* [[United Artists]]
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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 and covered 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 [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. A groundbreaking [[African-American]] performer, Horne advocated for civil rights and took part in the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] in August 1963. Later she returned to her roots as a nightclub performer and continued to work 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 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, retreating from the public eye in 2000.

== Early life ==
Lena Horne was born in [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn]]<ref name="pbs1">{{cite episode |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/lena-horne/about-the-performer/487/ |episode-link=Lena Horne: In Her Own Words| title=About the Performer| series=[[American Masters]] |date=May 14, 2010 |network=[[PBS]] |access-date=December 18, 2011}}</ref> to Edwin and Edna Horne on June 30, 1917.<ref name="playbill" /> Both sides of her family were [[biracial]] [[African Americans]].{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} She belonged to the well-educated [[African-American upper class|upper stratum]] of Black New Yorkers at the time.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} She lived the first five years of her life in a brownstone at 519 Macon Street.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2016/11/09/jazz-up-the-joint-with-lena-hornes-2m-brownstone/ "Jazz up the joint with Lena Horne’s $2M brownstone" by Jennifer Gould. ''New York Post''. Nov. 9, 2016.]</ref>

Horne's father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970),<ref name="LAT">{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-horne-20100510,0,1501683,full.story| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114181523/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-horne-20100510,0,1501683,full.story| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 14, 2010| title=Lena Horne dies at 92; singer and civil rights activist who broke barriers| date=May 10, 2010| access-date=May 10, 2010| work=Los Angeles Times| first1=Dennis| last1=McLellan| first2=Valerie J.| last2=Nelson}}</ref> a one-time owner of a hotel and restaurant,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/20/archives/lena-hornes-father-dies.html |title=Lena Horne's Father Dies |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=1970-04-20 |accessdate=2022-02-26}}</ref> was a gambler. Teddy Horne left the family when Lena was three years old and moved to an [[African-American upper class|upper-middle-class African-American community]] in the [[Hill District]] of [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name="kdka">{{cite news| url=http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2010/05/11/Lena-Horne-came-to-Pittsburgh-then-left-to-find-stardom/stories/201005110302| work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]| title=Lena Horne came to Pittsburgh, then left to find stardom| date=May 11, 2010| first=Sally| last=Kalson| access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref><ref name="pittsburghjazz">{{cite book| last=Brewer| first=John M.| title=Pittsburgh Jazz| publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]| year=2007| page=14| isbn=978-0738549804}}</ref> Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actress with a Black theatre [[mwod:troupe|troupe]] and traveled extensively.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150710060305/http://familyforest.com/ebook/Family%20Forest%20Hourglass%20of%20Lena%20Horne.pdf "Ancestors & Descendants of Lena Mary Calhoun Horne"]. The Family Forest.</ref> Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was from modern [[Senegal]].<ref>{{cite book| last1=Schickel| first1=Richard| last2=Horne| first2=Lena| title=Lena| url=https://archive.org/details/lena00horn| url-access=registration| year=1965| page=[https://archive.org/details/lena00horn/page/7 7]| publisher=Doubleday}}</ref> Horne had a paternal great-grandmother who was a Blackfoot Indian.<ref name="kdka" /> Horne was raised mainly by her paternal grandparents, [[Cora Catherine Calhoun Horne|Cora Calhoun]] and Edwin Horne.<ref name="LAT" />

When Horne was five she was sent to live in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref name="TonightShow">{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcuwCNIJVE| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/dvcuwCNIJVE| archive-date=2021-10-30| title=Lena Horne on Tonight Show 1982 – Part 1| year=1982| publisher=NBC/YouTube| access-date=May 10, 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> For several years she traveled with her mother.<ref name="GAencyclopedia">{{cite web| url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1691| title=Lena Horne| publisher=New Georgia Encyclopedia| first=Caroline| last=Cason| date=November 15, 2013| access-date=June 30, 2017| archive-date=October 18, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018220643/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1691| url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1927 to 1929 she lived with her uncle, [[Frank S. Horne]]. He was the dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of [[Fort Valley State University]]) in [[Fort Valley, Georgia]],<ref name="GAencyclopedia" /> and later served as an adviser to President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite interview| subject=Augustus F. Hawkins| interviewer=Clyde Woods| title=Black Leadership in Los Angeles: Tape Number: II, Side Two| pages=66–67| url=http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb858011v4&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text| type=transcript| date=November 18, 1992| access-date=January 8, 2009}}</ref> From Fort Valley, southwest of [[Macon, Georgia|Macon]], Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was twelve years old, after which Horne attended St Peter Claver School in Brooklyn.<ref name="GAencyclopedia" />

Horne then attended [[Girls High School]], an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn, which later became [[Boys and Girls High School]]; she dropped out at age 16.<ref name="Obit"/> At the age of 18 she moved to her father's home in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Hill District for almost five years and learning music from native Pittsburgers [[Billy Strayhorn]] and [[Billy Eckstine]], among others.<ref name="kdka" />

== Career ==

=== Road to Hollywood ===
In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the [[Cotton Club]], a '[[Black and tan clubs|black and tan club]]' in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring [[Adelaide Hall]], who took Lena under her wing.<ref>''Underneath A Harlem Moon'' by Iain Cameron Williams {{ISBN|0826458939}}, {{OCLC|51780394}}</ref> Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short ''[[Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party]]'' (1935).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lefkovitz|first=Aaron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UIyDwAAQBAJ&q=Cab+Calloway's+Jitterbug+Party+lena+horne&pg=PA5|title=Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917–2017|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2017|isbn=978-1498555760|page=5|language=en}}</ref> A few years later, Horne joined [[Noble Sissle]]'s Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she made her first records, issued by [[Decca Records|Decca]]. After she separated from her first husband, Horne toured with bandleader [[Charlie Barnet]] in 1940–41, but disliked the travel and left the band to work at the [[Café Society|Cafe Society]] in New York. She replaced [[Dinah Shore]] as the featured vocalist on NBC's popular jazz series ''[[The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street]]''. The show's resident maestros, Henry Levine and Paul Laval, recorded with Horne in June 1941 for [[RCA Victor]]. Horne left the show after only six months when she was hired by former Cafe [[Trocadero (Los Angeles)]] manager Felix Young to perform in a Cotton Club-style revue on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book| last=Gavin| first=James| title=Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne| isbn=978-0743271431| publisher=Altria Books| date= 2009| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/stormyweatherlif00gavin}}</ref>

[[File:TillCloudsRollBy01.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|right|Horne as Julie LaVerne in a mini-production of ''[[Show Boat]]'' in ''[[Till the Clouds Roll By]]'' (1946), singing "[[Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man]]"]]
[[File:Lena Horne - 1941.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Lena Horne photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1941]]

Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a musical feature called ''[[The Duke is Tops]]'' (1938, later reissued with Horne's name above the title as ''The Bronze Venus''); and a two-reel short subject, ''Boogie Woogie Dream'' (1941), featuring pianists [[Pete Johnson (musician)|Pete Johnson]] and [[Albert Ammons]]. Horne's songs from ''Boogie Woogie Dream'' were later released individually as [[soundies]]. Horne made her Hollywood nightclub debut at Felix Young's Little Troc on the [[Sunset Strip]] in January 1942.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> A few weeks later, she was signed by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. In November 1944, she was featured in an episode of the popular radio series ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]'', as a fictional nightclub singer, with a large speaking role along with her singing. In 1945 and 1946, she sang with [[Billy Eckstine]]'s Orchestra.

She made her debut at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in ''[[Panama Hattie (film)|Panama Hattie]]'' (1942) and performed the [[Stormy Weather (song)|title song]] of ''[[Stormy Weather (1943 film)|Stormy Weather]]'' (1943) based loosely on the life of [[Adelaide Hall]], for [[20th Century Fox]], while on loan from MGM. She appeared in several MGM [[musical film|musicals]], including ''[[Cabin in the Sky (film)|Cabin in the Sky]]'' (1943) with an entirely African-American cast. She was otherwise not featured in a leading role because of her ethnicity and the fact that her films were required to be re-edited for showing in cities where theaters would not show films with Black performers. As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were stand-alone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline. One number from ''Cabin in the Sky'' was cut before release because it was considered too suggestive by the censors: Horne singing "Ain't It the Truth" while taking a bubble bath. This scene and song are featured in the film ''[[That's Entertainment! III]]'' (1994), which also featured commentary from Horne on why the scene was deleted prior to the film's release. Horne was the first African-American person elected to serve on the [[Screen Actors Guild]] board of directors.

[[File:Lena Horne in Till the Clouds Roll By 2.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Horne singing "[[Why Was I Born?]]" in ''[[Till the Clouds Roll By]]'' (1946)]]

In ''[[Ziegfeld Follies (film)|Ziegfeld Follies]]'' (1946), she performed "Love" by [[Hugh Martin]] and [[Ralph Blane]]. Horne lobbied for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's version of ''[[Show Boat (1951 film)|Show Boat]]'' (1951), having already played the role when a segment of ''Show Boat'' was performed in ''[[Till the Clouds Roll By]]'', but lost the part to [[Ava Gardner]], a friend in real life. Horne claimed this was due to the [[Production Code]]'s ban on [[interracial relationship]]s in films, although MGM sources state she was never considered for the role. In the documentary ''That's Entertainment! III,'' Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses. Ultimately, Gardner's voice was [[dubbing (music)|overdubbed]] by actress Annette Warren (Smith) for the theatrical release.

=== Changes of direction ===
Horne became disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She made only two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: ''[[Duchess of Idaho]]'' (1950, which was also [[Eleanor Powell]]'s final film); and the musical ''[[Meet Me in Las Vegas]]'' (1956). She said she was "tired of being typecast as a Negro who stands against a pillar singing a song. I did that 20 times too often."<ref name=gesture>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 15, 1968|page=3|title=Lena Horne Weds Widmark In 'Patch'; U's Race Gesture}}</ref> She was [[blacklist]]ed during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with [[communist]]-backed groups. She would subsequently disavow communism.<ref name="pbs1"/><ref>{{cite journal| first=John| last=Meroney| title=The Red-Baiting of Lena Horne| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/the-red-baiting-of-lena-horne/398291/| journal=[[The Atlantic]]| date=August 27, 2015| access-date=August 28, 2015}}</ref> She returned to the screen, playing Claire Quintana, a madam in a brothel who marries [[Richard Widmark]], in the film ''[[Death of a Gunfighter]]'' (1969), her first straight dramatic role with no reference to her color.<ref name=gesture/> She later appeared on screen two more times as [[Glinda the Good Witch|Glinda]] in ''[[The Wiz (film)|The Wiz]]'' (1978), which was directed by her then son-in-law [[Sidney Lumet]], and co-hosting the MGM retrospective ''That's Entertainment! III'' (1994), in which she related her unkind treatment by the studio.

After leaving Hollywood, Horne established herself as one of the premier [[nightclub]] performers of the post-war era. She headlined at clubs and hotels throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including the [[Sands Hotel]] in Las Vegas, the [[Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)|Cocoanut Grove]] in Los Angeles, and the [[Waldorf-Astoria]] in New York. In 1957, a live album entitled, ''[[Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria|Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria]],'' became the biggest-selling record by a female artist in the history of the [[RCA Victor]] label at that time. In 1958, Horne became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a [[Tony Award]] for "Best Actress in a Musical", for her part in the "[[Calypso music|Calypso]]" musical ''[[Jamaica (musical)|Jamaica]]'' (which, at Horne's request featured her longtime friend [[Adelaide Hall]]).

[[File:Lena horne 1964.JPG|thumb|upright|Horne performing on ''The Bell Telephone Hour'', 1965]]

From the late 1950s through to the 1960s, Horne was a staple of TV variety shows, appearing multiple times on Perry Como's ''[[Kraft Music Hall]]'', ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', ''[[The Dean Martin Show]]'', and ''[[The Bell Telephone Hour]]''. Other programs she appeared on included ''[[The Judy Garland Show]]'', ''[[The Hollywood Palace]]'', and ''[[The Andy Williams Show]]''. Besides two television specials for the [[BBC]] (later syndicated in the U.S.), Horne starred in her own U.S. television special in 1969, ''Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne''. During this decade, the artist Pete Hawley painted her portrait for RCA Victor, capturing the mood of her performance style.

In 1970, she co-starred with [[Harry Belafonte]] in the hour-long ''Harry & Lena'' special for ABC; in 1973, she co-starred with [[Tony Bennett]] in ''Tony and Lena''. Horne and Bennett subsequently toured the U.S. and U.K. in a show together. In the 1976 program ''America Salutes Richard Rodgers'', she sang a lengthy medley of Rodgers songs with [[Peggy Lee]] and [[Vic Damone]]. Horne also made several appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs such as ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', ''[[Sesame Street]]'', and ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' and a 1993 appearance on ''[[A Different World (TV series)|A Different World]]''. In the summer of 1980, Horne, 63 years old and intent on retiring from show business, embarked on a two-month series of benefit concerts sponsored by the sorority [[Delta Sigma Theta]]. These concerts were represented as Horne's farewell tour, yet her retirement lasted less than a year.

On April 13, 1980, Horne, [[Luciano Pavarotti]], and host [[Gene Kelly]] were all scheduled to appear at a Gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to salute the NY City Center's [[Joffrey Ballet Company]]. However, Pavarotti's plane was diverted over the Atlantic and he was unable to appear. James Nederlander was an invited Honored Guest and observed that only three people at the sold-out Metropolitan Opera House asked for their money back. He asked to be introduced to Horne following her performance. In May 1981, The [[Nederlander Organization]], Michael Frazier, and Fred Walker went on to book Horne for a four-week engagement at the newly named [[Nederlander Theatre]] on West 41st Street in New York City. The show was an instant success and was extended to a full year run, garnering Horne a special Tony award, and two [[Grammy Awards]] for the cast recording of her show ''[[Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music]]''. The 333-performance Broadway run closed on Horne's 65th birthday, June 30, 1982. Later that same week, she performed the entire show again to record it for television broadcast and home video release. Horne began a tour a few days later at Tanglewood (Massachusetts) during the weekend of July 4, 1982. ''The Lady and Her Music'' toured 41 cities in the U.S. and Canada until June 17, 1984. It played in London for a month in August and ended its run in [[Stockholm, Sweden]], September 14, 1984. In 1981, she received a [[Special Tony Award]] for the show, which also played to acclaim at the [[Adelphi Theatre]] in London in 1984.<ref name="playbill">{{cite news| title=Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92| url=http://www.playbill.com/article/lena-horne-singer-and-actress-dies-at-92-com-167741| date=May 10, 2010| last=Simonson| first=Robert|author-link1=Robert Simonson| work=Playbill}}</ref> Despite the show's considerable success (Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects. A proposed 1983 joint recording project between Horne and [[Frank Sinatra]] (to be produced by [[Quincy Jones]]) was ultimately abandoned, and her sole studio recording of the decade was 1988's ''[[The Men in My Life]]'', featuring duets with [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] and [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]]. In 1989, she received the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]].

In 1995, a "live" album capturing Horne's Supper Club performance was released (subsequently winning a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album). In 1998, Horne released another studio album, entitled ''[[Being Myself (Lena Horne album)|Being Myself]]''. Thereafter, Horne retired from performing and largely retreated from public view, though she did return to the recording studio in 2000 to contribute vocal tracks on [[Simon Rattle]]'s ''Classic Ellington'' album.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |last1=Fordham |first1=John |author-link=John Fordham (jazz critic)|title=Lena Horne obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/10/lena-horne-obituary |access-date=30 September 2021 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |date=10 May 2010}}</ref>

== Civil rights activism ==
[[File:Lena Horne with Tuskegee airmen.png|thumb|Lena Horne posing with the [[Tuskegee Airmen]] in Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II.{{#tag:ref|Lena Horne performed for members of the United States military many times. Often she was required to perform for white troops first. She could only perform for the black troops the next day in a separate blacks-only mess hall.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Pilkington |first1=Ed |title=Lena Horne: a silken voice and fiery pride |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/10/lena-horne-profile-tributes |access-date=30 September 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |date=10 May 2010}}</ref> She performed for the first black pilots (the [[Tuskegee Airmen]]) many times during World War II.<ref name="Lena">{{cite book |last1=Ralston Major |first1=Glenda |last2=Clark Johnson, III |first2=Forrest |last3=Lanning Minchew |first3=Kaye |title=LaGrange |date=2011 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston South Carolina |isbn=978-0738587684 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK4aZV41-8sC&dq=lena+horne+willie+fuller&pg=PA90 |access-date=30 September 2021}}</ref>|group=N}}]]

Horne was long involved with the [[Civil Rights Movement]]. In 1941, she sang at [[Café Society]], New York City's first integrated venue, and worked with [[Paul Robeson]]. During [[World War II]], when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for [[racial segregation|segregated]] audiences or for groups in which German [[POW]]s were seated in front of Black servicemen", according to her [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center]] biography.<ref name=Kennedy>{{cite web| title=Lena Horne: Biography| url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/A3743| publisher=The Kennedy Center| access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref> Because the U.S. Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she staged her show for a mixed audience of Black U.S. soldiers and white German POWs. Seeing the Black soldiers had been forced to sit in the back seats, she walked off the stage to the first row where the Black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her. However, the USO observed at the time of her death that Horne did in fact tour "extensively with the USO during WWII on the West Coast and in the South".<ref name=horneuso>{{cite news|url=https://www.uso.org/stories/619-remembering-lena-horne|title=Remembering Lena Horne|publisher=USO.org|date=May 11, 2010|access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref> The organization also commemorated her for the appearances she made on [[Armed Forces Radio Service]] programs ''[[Jubilee (radio program)|Jubilee]]'', ''G.I. Journal'', and ''[[Command Performance (radio series)|Command Performances]]''.<ref name=horneuso /> In the film ''Stormy Weather'' (1943), Horne's character would perform the film's title song as part of a big, all-star show for World War II soldiers as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/katherine-dunham/articles-and-essays/notes-on-dunhams-work/stormy-weather/|title=Stormy Weather|author=Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref> After quitting the USO in 1945, Horne financed tours of military camps herself.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Sherrie |title=Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s |url=https://archive.org/details/swingshiftallgir0000tuck |url-access=registration |date=2000 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=0822324857 |page=[https://archive.org/details/swingshiftallgir0000tuck/page/240 240]}}</ref>

Horne was at an [[NAACP]] rally with [[Medgar Evers]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi]], the weekend before Evers was assassinated. At the [[March on Washington]] she spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|S.N.C.C.]], and the [[National Council of Negro Women]]. She also worked with [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] in attempts to pass anti-[[Lynching in the United States|lynching]] laws.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Horne-Lena.html| title=Lena Horne Biography| publisher=Encyclopedia of World Biographies| access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref> [[Tom Lehrer]] mentions her in his song "National Brotherhood Week" in the line "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek" referring (wryly) to her and to Sheriff [[Jim Clark (sheriff)|Jim Clark]], of [[Selma, Alabama]], who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965. In 1983, the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People|NAACP]] awarded her the [[Spingarn Medal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naacp.org/pages/spingarn-medal-winners |title=Spingarn Medal Winners: 1915 to Today |publisher=NAACP |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802063355/http://www.naacp.org/pages/spingarn-medal-winners |archive-date=August 2, 2014 }}</ref>

Horne was a registered [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and on November 20, 1963, she, along with Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) Chairman [[John Moran Bailey|John Bailey]], [[Carol Lawrence]], [[Richard Adler]], [[Sidney Salomon]], Vice-chairwoman of the DNC [[Margaret B. Price]], and Secretary of the DNC [[Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush]], visited [[John F. Kennedy]] at [[The White House]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-1963-11-20-E.aspx |title=Visit of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman John Bailey, Lena Horne, Carol Lawrence, Richard Adler, Sidney Salomon, Vice-Chairwoman of the DNC Margaret B. Price, and Secretary of the DNC Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, 11:30AM – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum |website=Jfklibrary.org |access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref> two days prior to his assassination.

== Personal life ==
[[File:Lena Horne 1997.jpg|thumb|Horne at her 80th birthday party, 1997]]

Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/jazz/jazz---early-years/lena-horne|title=Lena Horne – Found Romance and Children In Pittsburgh on Her Way to Super Stardom|website=Pittsburgh Music History|access-date=July 11, 2018|archive-date=March 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321212506/https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/jazz/jazz---early-years/lena-horne|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bowiestate.edu/academics-research/colleges/college-arts-sciences/departments/communications/the-spectrum/details/black-history-month-tribute-to-lena-horne-the-actress-and-activist/|title=Black History Month Tribute to Lena Horne: The Actress and Activist|author=Imani Davy|date=February 26, 2015|website=The Spectrum Student Newspaper · Bowie State University|access-date=July 11, 2018|archive-date=July 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711060525/https://www.bowiestate.edu/academics-research/colleges/college-arts-sciences/departments/communications/the-spectrum/details/black-history-month-tribute-to-lena-horne-the-actress-and-activist/|url-status=dead}}</ref> in January 1937 in [[Pittsburgh]]. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, [[Gail Lumet Buckley|Gail]] (1937–2024), was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (1940–1970), who died of [[kidney disease]].<ref name="LAT" /> Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to [[Lennie Hayton]], who was music director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s but never divorced. He died in 1971.<ref>{{cite news| title=Lena Horne Obituary| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/7706158/Lena-Horne.html| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| date=May 10, 2010|  access-date= June 30, 2017}}</ref> In her as-told-to autobiography ''Lena'' by [[Richard Schickel]], Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an [[interracial marriage|interracial]] couple. She later admitted in an interview in ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' (May 1980) that she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the color barrier in show business, but "learned to love him very much".<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDbcot0HasEC&q=Ebony%201980%20Lena%20Horne&pg=PA44|title=Ebony Interview: Lena Horne| journal=[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]| pages=38–50| date=May 1980}}</ref>

Horne had affairs with long-time heavyweight champion [[Joe Louis]], musician and actor [[Artie Shaw]], actor [[Orson Welles]],  and director [[Vincente Minnelli]].<ref name="ReferenceA" />

Horne also had a long and close relationship with [[Billy Strayhorn]], whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual.<ref>{{ cite book| first=David| last=Hajdu| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=snKKy0SnkzcC&q=lena+horne+marry| date= 1997| title=Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn| location=New York| publisher=North Point Press| page=95| isbn=978-0865475120}}</ref> He was also an important professional mentor to her.

Among her close friends was author [[Rex Stout]], creator of the mystery series featuring the fictional detective [[Nero Wolfe]]. She first met Stout in the early 1950s when their daughters were classmates at a Quaker boarding school in upstate New York. In 1996 Horne wrote the Introduction to a new edition of Stout’s novel, ''Champagne for One''.

Screenwriter [[Jenny Lumet]], known for her award-winning screenplay ''[[Rachel Getting Married]]'', is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker [[Sidney Lumet]] and Horne's daughter Gail.<ref>{{cite news| title=Ella unenchanted goes to a wedding – Demme explores concept of family| work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]| date=October 10, 2008| last=Ebert| first=Roger| author-link=Roger Ebert| page=B1}}</ref> Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's four children, Thomas, William, Samadhi and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include [[Jake Cannavale]].<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/heavy-metal-rocker-and-broadways-new-fish-get-to-know-bobby-cannavales-teenage-son-jake-342144| title=Heavy Metal Rocker and Broadway's New Fish: Get to Know Bobby Cannavale's Teenage Son, Jake| journal=Playbill| date=February 20, 2015| last=Gioia| first=Michael| access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>

Horne was [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web|date=2012-01-19|title=Catholic funeral said for groundbreaking singer-actress Lena Horne|url=https://www.archbalt.org/catholic-funeral-said-for-groundbreaking-singer-actress-lena-horne/|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Archdiocese of Baltimore|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Allison|date=2010-05-17|title=Why I Am Catholic: Because Lena Horne Found Solace in the Church|url=http://yimcatholic.blogspot.com/2010/05/because-lena-horne-found-solace-in.html|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Why I Am Catholic}}</ref> From 1946 to 1962 she resided in [[St. Albans, Queens]], New York, enclave of prosperous African Americans, where she counted among her neighbors [[Count Basie]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and other jazz luminaries.<ref>[http://prrac.org/newsletters/janfebmar2017.pdf "This Green and Pleasant Land"] by Bryan Greene, in ''Poverty and Race'', p. 3.</ref> In the 1980s, she moved into the fifth floor of the Volney, a hotel-turned-co-op, at 23 [[East 74th Street]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/realestate/lena-horne-nyc-apartment-sale.html|title=Lena Horne's Upper East Side Co-op Is Listed at $2.195 Million|first=Vivian|last=Marino|newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 21, 2022}}</ref>

== Death ==
Lena Horne died of [[congestive heart failure]] at age 92 on May 9, 2010.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051000091.html| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| title=Lena Horne Dies at 92| first=Adam| last=Bernstein| date=May 11, 2010}}</ref> Her funeral took place at [[Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)|St. Ignatius Loyola Church]] on Park Avenue in New York, where she had been a member.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rRL1q_ljUy8C&q=lena+horne+member+of+st.+ignatius&pg=PA125|title=Adieus to Achievers|first=Dr Robert R.|last=Morman|date=2010|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1456727550|via=Google Books}}</ref> Thousands gathered and attendees included: [[Leontyne Price]], [[Dionne Warwick]], [[Liza Minnelli]], [[Jessye Norman]], [[Chita Rivera]], [[Cicely Tyson]], [[Diahann Carroll]], [[Leslie Uggams]], [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Robert Osborne]], [[Audra McDonald]], and [[Vanessa L. Williams|Vanessa Williams]].  Her remains were cremated.<ref>{{cite news| first=James| last=Barron| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/nyregion/15horne.html| title=Lena Horne, Who Moved Barriers and Emotions, Is Remembered| work=The New York Times| date=May 14, 2010}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
In 2003, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] announced that [[Janet Jackson]] would star as Horne in a television biographical film. In the weeks following Jackson's "[[Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy|wardrobe malfunction]]" debacle during the [[Super Bowl XXXVIII|2004 Super Bowl]], however, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' reported that Horne had demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand", according to the [[Associated Press]] report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part." [[Oprah Winfrey]] stated to [[Alicia Keys]] during a 2005 interview on ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' that she might possibly consider producing the biopic herself, casting Keys as Horne.<ref name=BET>{{cite news| title=Where Is the Lena Horne Biopic?| last=Cane| first=Clay| url=https://www.bet.com/article/5h4tba/where-is-the-lena-horne-biopic| publisher=BET News| date=February 24, 2012}}</ref>

In January 2005, [[Blue Note Records]], her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note." Remixed by her long-time producer Rodney Jones, the recordings featured Horne with a remarkably secure voice for a woman of her years, and include versions of such signature songs as "[[Something to Live For (Billy Strayhorn song)|Something to Live For]]", "[[Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn song)|Chelsea Bridge]]", and "[[Stormy Weather (song)|Stormy Weather]]". The album, originally titled ''Soul'' but renamed ''Seasons of a Life'', was released on January 24, 2006. In 2007, Horne was portrayed by [[Leslie Uggams]] as the older Lena and Nikki Crawford as the younger Lena in the stage musical ''Stormy Weather'' staged at the [[Pasadena Playhouse]] in California (January to March 2009). In 2011, Horne was also portrayed by actress Ryan Jillian in a one-woman show titled ''Notes from A Horne'' staged at the Susan Batson studio in New York City, from November 2011 to February 2012. The [[83rd Academy Awards]] presented a tribute to Horne by actress [[Halle Berry]] at the ceremony held February 27, 2011.<ref>{{cite news| title=Halle Berry Pays Tribute to Lena Horne at Oscars| url=http://www.essence.com/2011/02/28/lena-horne-tribute-oscars-halle-berry| work=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]| date=February 28, 2011}}</ref>

In 2018, a [[forever stamp]] depicting Horne began to be issued; this made Horne the 41st honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/entertainment/lena-horne-honored-with-postage-stamp/article_01417d19-4ec5-5b84-a691-77211cfcc89b.html |title=Lena Horne honored with postage stamp &#124; Entertainment |publisher=phillytrib.com |date=June 30, 1917 |access-date=February 7, 2018}}</ref>

In June 2021, the [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)|Prospect Park]] bandshell in Brooklyn was renamed the Lena Horne Bandshell to honor Horne, a Bed-Stuy Brooklyn native, and to show solidarity with the Black community.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.prospectpark.org/news-events/news/prospect-park-bandshell-renamed-lena-horne/ |title=Prospect Park Bandshell renamed Lena Horne Bandshell |publisher=prospectpark.org |date=June 25, 2021 |access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>

The [[Nederlander Organization]] announced in June 2022 that [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]'s Brooks Atkinson Theatre would be renamed after her later that year.<ref>{{cite web | last=Evans | first=Greg | title=Broadway Theater To Be Renamed For Icon Lena Horne In Historic First | website=Deadline | date=June 9, 2022 | url=https://deadline.com/2022/06/lena-horne-broadway-theater-renamed-1235041529/ | access-date=June 10, 2022}}</ref> The theater's marquee was unveiled on November 1, 2022. The theatre is now called the [[Lena Horne Theatre]], which means Horne is the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named after her.<ref>{{cite web | last=Evans | first=Greg | title=Lena Horne Theatre Coming To Broadway Next Month | website=Deadline | date=October 19, 2022 | url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/lena-horne-theatre-broadway-renaming-brooks-atkinson-1235148700/ | access-date=October 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 1, 2022 |title=Broadway theater renamed in honor of late actress Lena Horne |url=https://abc7ny.com/lena-horne-actress-broadway-theater-renaming/12405927/ |access-date=November 2, 2022 |website=ABC7 New York}}</ref><ref name="Carlin 2022">{{cite web |last=Carlin |first=Dave |date=November 1, 2022 |title=Lena Horne becomes first Black woman to have Broadway theater named after her |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/lena-horne-becomes-1st-black-woman-to-have-broadway-theater-named-after-her/ |access-date=November 2, 2022 |website=CBS News}}</ref>

== Awards ==

=== Grammy Awards ===
{| class=wikitable
|+ colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| Lena Horne [[Grammy Award]] History<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx?title=&winner=etta+james&year=0&genreID=0&hp=1 |title=GRAMMY Winners Search |access-date=December 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231090257/http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx?title=&winner=etta+james&year=0&genreID=0&hp=1 |archive-date=December 31, 2008  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory |title=The Envelope: Hollywood's Awards and Industry Insider – Los Angeles Times |website=Theenvelope.latimes.com |date=July 13, 2017 |access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref>
|- align=center
| {{grammy|1961}} || ''[[Lena Horne at the Sands]]'' || Best Vocal Performance Album, Female || {{Nom}}
|- align=center
| {{grammy|1962}} || ''[[Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album)|Porgy and Bess]]'' || Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female || {{Nom}}
|- align=center
|rowspan="2"| {{grammy|1981}} || ''[[Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music]]''  || [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female]]  || {{Won}}
|- align=center
| ''Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music'' || [[Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album|Best Cast Show Album]] || {{won}}
|- align=center
|rowspan="2"| {{grammy|1988}} || ''[[The Men in My Life]]'' || Best Jazz Vocal Performance  || {{Nom}}
|- align=center
| "I Won't Leave You Again" {{small|(with [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]])}} || [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group|Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group]] || {{Nom}}
|- align=center
| {{grammy|1989}} ||  || [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]]  || {{Won}}
|- align=center
| {{grammy|1995}} || ''[[An Evening with Lena Horne]]'' || [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album|Best Jazz Vocal Performance]] || {{Won}}
|}

=== Other awards ===
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Year
! Organization
! Category
! Result
! Notes
|- align=center
| 1957
| Tony Awards
| Best Actress
| Nominee
| ''[[Jamaica (musical)|Jamaica]]''
|- align=center
| 1980
| [[Howard University]]
| Honorary doctorate<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3743&source_type=A |title=Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Lena Horne |access-date=June 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613072328/http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3743&source_type=A |archive-date=June 13, 2007  }}</ref>
| Honored
|
|- align=center
| 1980
| Drama Desk Awards
| Outstanding Actress – Musical
| '''Won'''
| ''Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music''
|- align=center
| 1980
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
| Special Citation
| '''Won'''
| ''Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music''
|- align=center
| 1981
| Tony Awards
| Special Citation
| '''Won'''
| ''Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music''
|- align=center
| 1984
| John F. Kennedy Center for <br />the Performing Arts
| Kennedy Center Honors<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history/home.html |title=Past Honorees |website=Kennedy-center.org |access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref>
| '''Won'''
| For extraordinary talent, creativity, and perseverance
|- align=center
| 1985
| Emmy Award
| ''[[Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music]]''
| Nominee
|
|- align=center
| 1987
| American Society of Composers, <br />Authors and Publishers
| The ASCAP Pied Piper Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/piedpiper/|title=ASCAP Error Page|work=www.ascap.com|access-date=November 30, 2007|archive-date=July 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717030929/http://www.ascap.com/piedpiper/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| '''Won'''
| Given to entertainers who have made significant contributions to words and music
|- align=center
| 1994
| Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award
| Songwriters Hall of Fame
| '''Won'''
|
|- align=center
| 1997
| [[Society of Singers]]
| [[Society of Singers]] Lifetime Achievement Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.singers.org/special-events/ |title=Ella Award Special Events |date=February 12, 2011 |access-date=May 10, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514064028/http://www.singers.org/special-events/ |archive-date=May 14, 2015 }}</ref>
| '''Won'''
| for "whom singers are awarded for their contribution to the world of music along with their dedicated efforts to benefit the community and worldwide causes"
|- align=center
| 1999
| NAACP Image Award
| [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist|Outstanding Jazz Artist]]
| '''Won'''
|
|- align=center
| 2006
| Martin Luther King, Jr. <br />National Historic Site
| [[International Civil Rights Walk of Fame]]<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/WOF/Walkoffame.html#Scene_1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212040136/http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/WOF/Walkoffame.html|date=December 12, 2007}}</ref>
| Inducted
|
|- align=center
| ?
| Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
| Hollywood Walk of Fame
| '''Won'''
| Honor (motion pictures)
|- align=center
| ?
| Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
| Hollywood Walk of Fame
| '''Won'''
| Honor (recordings)
|}

== Filmography ==

=== Film ===
{{div col}}
* ''[[Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party]]'' (1935, short subject)
* ''[[The Duke Is Tops]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Panama Hattie (film)|Panama Hattie]]'' (1942)
* ''[[Cabin in the Sky (film)|Cabin in the Sky]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Stormy Weather (1943 film)|Stormy Weather]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Thousands Cheer]]'' (1943)
* ''[[I Dood It]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Swing Fever]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Boogie-Woogie Dream]]'' (1944, short subject filmed in 1941)
* ''[[Broadway Rhythm]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Two Girls and a Sailor]]'' (1944)
* ''Studio Visit'' (1946) (short subject; featuring outtake from ''Cabin in the Sky'')
* ''[[Till the Clouds Roll By]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Ziegfeld Follies (film)|Ziegfeld Follies]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Words and Music (1948 film)|Words and Music]]'' (1948)
* ''Some of the Best'' (1949, short subject)
* ''[[Duchess of Idaho]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Meet Me in Las Vegas]]'' (1956)
* ''The Heart of Show Business'' (1957, short subject)
* ''Now!'' (1965) (short subject, voice only)
* ''[[Death of a Gunfighter]]'' (1969)
* ''[[The Wiz (film)|The Wiz]]'' (1978)
* ''[[That's Entertainment! III]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Strange Frame]]'' (archive footage, 2012)
{{div col end}}

=== Television ===
{{div col}}
* ''[[What's My Line?]]'' (as Mystery Guest, September 27, 1953)
* ''[[Ed Sullivan Show]]'' (January 6, 1957)
* "[[What's My Line?]]" (as Mystery Guest, March 2, 1958)
* ''[[The Judy Garland Show]]'' (as herself, October 13, 1963)
* ''[[The Perry Como Show]]'' (as herself, March 5, 1965)
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' (as herself, Episode #5.1, November 19, 1973)
* ''[[Sanford & Son]]'' ("A Visit from Lena Horne" as herself, #2. January 12, 1973)
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' (as herself, 1976)
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' (as herself, Episode #7.76, March 15, 1976)
* ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' ("Cliff's Birthday" as herself, May 9, 1985)
* ''[[A Different World (TV series)|A Different World]]'' ("A Rock, a River, a Lena" as herself, July 1993)
{{div col end}}

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===
* ''Moanin' Low'' ([[RCA Victor]], 1942)
* ''Classics in Blue'' (Black & White, 1947)
* ''Lena Horne Sings'' ([[Tops Records|Tops]], 1953)
* ''[[It's Love (album)|It's Love]]'' (RCA Victor, 1955)
* ''Lena Horne'' (Tops, 1956)
* ''[[Jamaica (musical)|Jamaica]]'' with Ricardo Montalban (RCA Victor, 1957)
* ''[[Stormy Weather (Lena Horne album)|Stormy Weather]]'' (RCA Victor, 1957)
* ''[[Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria]]'' (RCA Victor, 1957)
* ''Lena and Ivie'' with Ivie Anderson (Jazztone, 1957)
* ''I Feel So Smoochie'' (Lion, 1958)
* ''[[Give the Lady What She Wants]]'' (RCA Victor, 1958)
* ''[[Songs by Burke and Van Heusen]]'' (RCA Victor, 1959)
* ''[[Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album)|Porgy & Bess]]'' with Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor, 1959)
* ''[[Lena Horne at the Sands]]'' (RCA Victor, 1961)
* ''L' inimitable Lena Horne'' with Phil Moore (Explosive, 1962)
* ''[[Lena...Lovely and Alive]]'' (RCA Victor, 1962)
* ''[[Lena on the Blue Side]]'' (RCA Victor, 1962)
* ''Fabulous!'' (Baronet, 1962)
* ''Here's Lena Now!'' ([[20th Century Fox Records|20th Century Fox]], 1963)
* ''Swinging Lena Horne'' ([[Coronet Records|Coronet]], 1963)
* ''[[Lena Horne Sings Your Requests]]'' ([[MGM Records|MGM]], 1963)
* ''[[Lena Like Latin]]'' (CRC Charter 1963)
* ''Gloria Lynne & Lena Horne'' (Coronet, 1963)
* ''The Incomparable Lena Horne'' (Tops, 1963)
* ''[[Feelin' Good (Lena Horne album)|Feelin' Good]]'' ([[United Artists Records|United Artists]], 1965)
* ''[[Merry from Lena]]'' (United Artists, 1966)
* ''[[Soul (Lena Horne album)|Soul]]'' (United Artists, 1966)
* ''[[Lena in Hollywood]]'' (United Artists, 1966)
* ''The Horne of Plenty'' (World Record Club 1966)
* ''Dinah Washington: A Memorial Tribute'' with Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan (Coronet, 1967)
* ''My Name Is Lena'' (United Artists, 1967)
* ''[[Lena & Gabor]]'' with [[Gábor Szabó]] ([[Skye Records|Skye]], 1970)
* ''[[Harry & Lena]]'' with Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor, 1970)
* ''[[Nature's Baby]]'' ([[Buddah Records|Buddah]], 1971)
* ''Lena'' ([[Ember Records (US label)|Ember]], 1971)
* ''[[Lena & Michel]]'' with Michel Legrand (RCA Victor, 1975)
* ''[[Lena: A New Album]]'' (RCA Victor, 1976)
* ''The Exciting Lena Horne'' (Springboard, 1977)
* ''Love from Lena'' (Koala, 1979)
* ''[[Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music]]'' ([[Qwest]], 1981)
* ''A Date with Lena Horne 1944'' (Sunbeam, 1981)
* ''The One & Only'' ([[Polydor Records|Polydor]], 1982)
* ''Standing Room Only'' (Accord, 1982)
* ''[[The Men in My Life]]'' (Three Cherries, 1988)
* ''Lena'' ([[Prestige Records|Prestige]], 1990)
* ''[[We'll Be Together Again (album)|We'll Be Together Again]]'' ([[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]], 1994)
* ''[[An Evening with Lena Horne]]'' (Blue Note, 1995)
* ''Cabin in the Sky'' (TCM, 1996)
* ''Wonderful Lena'' (Sovereign, 1997)
* ''[[Being Myself (Lena Horne album)|Being Myself]]'' (Blue Note, 1998)
* ''The Complete Black and White Recordings'' (Simitar, 1999)
* ''The Classic Lena Horne'' (RCA, 2001)
* ''Stormy Weather'' ([[Bluebird Records|Bluebird]], 2002)
* ''[[Seasons of a Life]]'' (Blue Note, 2006)

=== Singles ===
* "That's What Love Did to Me"/"I Take to You" (Decca)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/sissleo.html|title=Noble Sissle and his Orchestra|work=redhotjazz.com}}</ref>
* "[[Stormy Weather (song)|Stormy Weather]]" (1943)
* "[[One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)]]" (1945) No. 21 U.S. Pop
* "[['Deed I Do]]" (1948) No. 26 U.S. Pop
* "[[Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song)|Love Me or Leave Me]]" (1955) No. 19 U.S. Pop (Disc Jockey Chart)
* "Now!" (1963) No. 92 U.S. Pop
* "Watch What Happens" with [[Gabor Szabo]] (1970) No. 119 U.S. Pop

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=N}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Bibliography ==
{{refbegin}}
* Gavin, James, ''Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne''. Atria, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0743271431}}.
* Haskins, James, and Kathleen Benson, ''Lena'', Stein and Day, 1984. {{ISBN|0812828534}}.
* Horne, Lena, and Richard Schickel, ''Lena'', Doubleday, 1965. {{ISBN|978-0385080347}}.
* Williams, Iain Cameron [http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/underneath-a-harlem-moon-9780826458933/ ''Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall''] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226182123/https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/underneath-a-harlem-moon-9780826458933/ |date=February 26, 2021 }}). Bloomsbury Publishers, {{ISBN|0826458939}}.
{{refend}}

== Further reading ==
* Powers, Clare (June 1, 1955). "That Fabulous Lena". ''Down Beat''. pp.&nbsp;[https://archive.org/details/sim_down-beat_1955-06-01_22_11/page/6/mode/2up 6], [https://archive.org/details/sim_down-beat_1955-06-01_22_11/page/20/mode/1up 20].
* {{Cite book |last=Bogle |first=Donald |year=2023 |title=Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2DmsEAAAQBAJ |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Running Press |isbn=9780762475209 |oclc=1361694201}}

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* [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1691 Entry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018220643/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1691 |date=October 18, 2012 }}
* [http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Horne-Lena.html Biography]
* [https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/lena-horne Lena Horne Interview] at [[NAMM Oral History Program|NAMM Oral History Collection]] (1994)
* The story of her early life is retold in the 1949 radio drama "[https://archive.org/details/DestinationFreedom/DF_49-06-12_ep049-Negro_Cinderella.mp3 Negro Cinderella]", a presentation from ''[[Destination Freedom]]'', written by [[Richard Durham]]

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