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Lena Horne dies at 92; singer and civil rights activist who broke barriers
latimes.com ^
| May 10, 2010
| DENNIS MCLELLAN AND VALERIE J. NELSON
Posted on 05/12/2019 11:01:00 AM PDT by lowbridge
"Stormy Weather" was Lena Horne's signature song as well as a chillingly apt metaphor for her career. Long celebrated for her striking beauty and silky voice, she overcame profound racism on her way to becoming one of the best-known African American performers in the country.
At MGM, she had a seven-year contract in the 1940s when no other African American had such long-term deals. But her movie scenes were filmed so they could be easily excised for release in the Jim Crow South.
As a singer in the 1950s, Horne often performed for white audiences in supper clubs then cursed the audience under her breath as she took her bows, her biographer wrote last year.
The glamorous Horne would go on to be "one of the legendary divas of popular music," jazz critic Don Heckman wrote in The Times in 1997, with a voice that almost caressed "with its warm timbre and seductive drawl,"
Horne, whose career spanned more than 60 years, died Sunday of heart failure at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, said her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. She was 92.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2010; flashback; lenahorne; lenahorneobit; reallyoldnews
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To: lowbridge
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posted on
05/12/2019 1:16:20 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(If you are not interested you will see nothing but the road you walk on.-Jim Corbett)
To: lowbridge
Sad news. Rest in peace Lena.
A wonderful talented American has passed away.
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posted on
05/12/2019 1:19:58 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: ConservativeMind
But Abe Vigoda still lives!
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posted on
05/12/2019 1:21:39 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: tet68
Well, that just shows how out of touch I’m getting.
As Jack Palance said, “Growing old ain’t for sissies.”.
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posted on
05/12/2019 1:22:21 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
05/12/2019 1:22:26 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: lowbridge
I’m get a kick out of reading this thread...and looking at who really didn’t read the dates real close.
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posted on
05/12/2019 1:32:51 PM PDT
by
NELSON111
(Congress: The Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog show. Theater for sheep. My politics determines my "hero")
To: cbvanb
Sounds like the film Green Book.
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posted on
05/12/2019 2:05:17 PM PDT
by
gcparent
(Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
To: lowbridge
Sending Prayers! Another legend goes to Heaven!
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posted on
05/12/2019 2:10:20 PM PDT
by
Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
To: Busko
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posted on
05/12/2019 2:13:32 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
To: ConservativeMind
I read that President Nixon has passed on.
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posted on
05/12/2019 2:17:57 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: ConservativeMind
#29 whoa they passed away?
To: lowbridge
I was going to say, I was surprised she was still alive. Apparently not.
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posted on
05/12/2019 3:14:51 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
05/12/2019 3:35:59 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: lowbridge
Fred G. Sanford always had a thing for Lena.
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posted on
05/12/2019 4:53:54 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: originalbuckeye
Are you thinking of Louis Prima and Keely Smith?
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05/12/2019 4:56:40 PM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
To: lowbridge
A beautiful woman with a magnificent voice. She will be missed.
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posted on
05/12/2019 5:05:19 PM PDT
by
60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
05/12/2019 5:11:11 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: boycott
Fred wasn't the only one with a thing for Lena!
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posted on
05/12/2019 5:18:58 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: lowbridge
You should have posted this from the archives on Throwback Thursday.
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posted on
05/12/2019 6:05:10 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
To: eCSMaster
No. I remember clearly ‘Louis’ little Lena’.
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posted on
05/12/2019 9:20:18 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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