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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...
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    The Lena Horne Theatre (previously the Mansfield Theatre and the Brooks Atkinson Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 256 West 47th Street in the Theater...
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  • screenwriter. She is the daughter of director Sidney Lumet and granddaughter of Lena Horne. Lumet is perhaps most known for writing the original screenplay of the...
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  • Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music was a 1981 Broadway musical revue written for and starring American singer and actress Lena Horne. The musical was produced...
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  • Lena Horne at the Sands is a 1961 live album by Lena Horne, her second live recording released by RCA Victor. Recorded over three evenings, the 3rd to...
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  • of film director Sidney Lumet, and a great-grandson of singer/actress Lena Horne. "Jake Cannavale: Performer". Internet Broadway Database (The Broadway...
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  • An Evening with Lena Horne is a 1994 live album by Lena Horne. At the 38th Grammy Awards, Horne's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for...
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  • Stormy Weather is a 1957 studio album by Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in monophonic. Recording took place between March 1956 and March 1957, at Webster...
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  • (NACW). She was the grandmother of entertainer Lena Horne and raised Horne when she was young. Horne was born in November 1865 in Atlanta, Georgia, to...
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  • painter Lena Tracy Hanks (1879–1944), American psychologist Lena Headey (born 1973), British actress Lena Hill, American academic administrator Lena Horne (1917–2010)...
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  • Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria is a 1957 live album by Lena Horne, conducted by Lennie Hayton, recorded in Stereo at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New...
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    Theatre would be renamed after Lena Horne, The James Earl Jones Theatre was rededicated in September 2022, while the Lena Horne Theatre was rededicated that...
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    directed by Andrew L. Stone, produced by William LeBaron and starring Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cab Calloway. The film is one of two Hollywood...
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    The Mills Brothers, Nina Mae McKinney, Billie Holiday, Midge Williams, Lena Horne, and dancers such as Katherine Dunham, Bill Robinson, The Nicholas Brothers...
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    American Fiction. Uggams was picked to star in Hallelujah, Baby! after Lena Horne declined the role of Georgina. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1967...
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  • Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne, and Richard Pryor. The story was reworked from William F. Brown's Broadway...
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  • Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, and Lena Horne. Like many musicals of the period, the performances in the soundtrack...
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    Lena Horne. Waters and Rex Ingram reprise their roles from the Broadway production as Petunia and Lucifer Junior, respectively. The film was Horne's first...
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  • Time in a Bottle (category Lena Horne songs)
    "Time in a Bottle" is a song by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. He wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant in December 1970. It appeared...
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  • of James Brown with the pop sensibilities of Prince and the grace of Lena Horne". AllMusic's Michael Gallucci said that in spite of NdegéOcello's occasionally...
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  • Speak Low (category Lena Horne songs)
    "Speak Low" (1943) is a popular song composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Ogden Nash. It was introduced by Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in the Broadway...
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  • Stormy Weather (song) (category Lena Horne songs)
    Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Clodagh Rodgers, Reigning Sound, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, The Spaniels and others. Leo Reisman's orchestra version...
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  • Feelin' Good is a 1965 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis and released on United Artists Records. The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann...
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  • Honeysuckle Rose (song) (category Lena Horne songs)
    (1939) The King Cole Trio, March 14, 1941, April 11, 1946, July 2, 1947 Lena Horne – In musical film Thousands Cheer (M-G-M, 1943) Teddy Wilson (1944) Sarah...
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    recorded seven albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, he cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences. Mathis was...
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    board of trustees in 2020. Tunie made her Broadway debut alongside Lena Horne in Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music in 1981. From 1987 to 1995, she starred...
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  • Soul is a 1966 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis. Soul was the third of four albums Lena Horne recorded for United Artists Records. Recorded...
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  • Mad About the Boy (category Lena Horne songs)
    Grenfell Dick and Kiz Harp – At the 90th Floor (1960) 90th Floor Records Lena Horne Greta Keller Eartha Kitt Cleo Laine Gertrude Lawrence Amanda Lear – Let...
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    guitarist who worked with Jaki Byard, Chico Hamilton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena Horne and as a bandleader. He is cited as a jazz guitarist who uses modern quartal...
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  • The Lady Is a Tramp (category Lena Horne songs)
    Sophie Tucker, and Bernie Cummins on the Vocalion records label (#3714). Lena Horne recorded the song with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Orchestra on March...
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