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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Fort Valley is a city in and the county seat of Peach County, Georgia, United States. The population was 8,005 at the 2000 census.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia () is a state located in the southeastern United States. Georgia was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 21, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870 and the only among the 13 that is explicitly named after a monarch; King George II of England.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, or Jackson City, is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County (the town of Raymond is the other), but the city also contains areas in Madison and Rankin counties. During the 90s Jackson saw a decline in population while its suburbs boomed. Sometimes the city is credited with going through the stages the city of Atlanta went through 70s-90s with its suburbs. Jackson including its surrounding suburbs boast a strong economy as well as population. The 2000 census recorded Jackson's population at 184,256, but according to July 1, 2008 estimates, the city's population was 173,861 and its five-county Jackson metropolitan area had a population of 628,817. The Jackson-Yazoo City combined statistical area, consisting of the Jackson metropolitan area and Yazoo City micropolitan area, has a population of over 600,000, making it the 88th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Macon, Georgia
Macon () is a city located in central Georgia, US. It is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. It lies near the geographic center of Georgia, approximately 85 miles (136 km) south of Atlanta, hence the city's nickname as the Heart of Georgia. As of 2008, Macon had an estimated population of 92,775; In terms of population, Macon is the sixth-largest city in Georgia (just after Athens).
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Pittsburgh () is the second-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it anchors the 22nd largest urban area in the United States. The estimated population of the city in 2009 was 311,647, while the seven-county metropolitan area was estimated at 2,354,957. Downtown Pittsburgh retains substantial economic influence, ranking at 25th in the nation for jobs within the urban core and 6th in job density. The characteristic shape of Pittsburgh's central business district is a triangular tract carved by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, where the Ohio River forms. The city features 151 high-rise buildings, 446 bridges, two inclined railways, and a pre-revolutionary fortification. Pittsburgh is known colloquially as "The City of Bridges" and "The Steel City" for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base.
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The Sands Hotel was a historic Las Vegas Strip hotel/casino that operated from December 15, 1952 to June 30, 1996. Designed by architect Wayne McAllister, the Sands was the seventh resort that opened on the Strip.
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Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama, United States, located on the banks of the Alabama River. The population was 20,512 at the 2000 census.
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The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American born British based jazz singer and entertainer.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Agnes de Mille
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
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Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey, Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. His company gained the nickname "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its extensive international touring. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is believed to be the best-known and most often seen modern dance performance.
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Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 in Southington, Connecticut – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer.
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Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor (4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include award-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible.
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Audra McDonald
Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress and singer. She currently stars in the ABC television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett. She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas, such as Ragtime (musical) and A Raisin in the Sun. She maintains an active concert and recording career, performing song cycles and operas as well as performing in concert throughout the US. She has won the Tony Award four times and Grammy Award twice.
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Ava Gardner
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Bebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife and ex-wife, on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role), and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). She is also known for originating the role of Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago.
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Benny Goodman
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
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Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author from New York City. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.
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Bette Davis
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Beverly Sills
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Billie Holiday
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Billy Eckstine
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Billy Strayhorn
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Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
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Carolee Carmello
Carolee Carmello (born September 1, 1962, in Albany, New York) is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals.
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Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic, and charming.
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Charlie Barnet
:For other persons with this name, see Charlie Barnett.
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Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots.
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Clamma Dale
Clamma Dale (born 1948) is an African-American operatic soprano. She is best known for portraying the role of Bess in the highly successful 1976 Houston Grand Opera production of Porgy and Bess. The show was transferred from Houston to Broadway where Dale was awarded a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award nomination.
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Claudette Colbert
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Count Basie
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.
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Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935 in New York, New York) is an American actress and singer.
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Dinah Shore
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Donna McKechnie
Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1940) is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, "Cassie" from the musical A Chorus Line, for which she earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1976.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Ebert, Roger
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Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Elia Kazan
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Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899–March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.
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Frank Sinatra
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Frederick Loewe
Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, with book and lyrics by Lerner, both of which were made into films.
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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George Abbott
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than eight decades.
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George Burns
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
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German people
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Gian Carlo Menotti
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Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of stage and screen, known for her roles as a femme fatale (the scheming marchioness of Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987). She is also known for playing Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996), and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). She has been more recently known for being in the FX TV series Damages. She has been nominated five times for an Oscar, and has won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Gábor Szabó
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry (; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in ''Monster's Ball'', becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She has also been involved in the production side of several of her films.
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Harry Belafonte
Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (originally Belafonete; born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso," a title which he was very reluctant to accept (according to the documentary Calypso Dreams) for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O." Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes, and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration. He also worked as an actor.
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Harry Warren
Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.
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Heather Headley
Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian R&B; and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.
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Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin (born August 11, 1914) is an American musical theatre and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the classic 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door", The Trolley Song, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world and is widely considered one of the greatest Christmas songs of all-time. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s including her legendary stint at the Palace.
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Hume Cronyn
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Isaac Stern
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James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.
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James Stewart
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family at the age of seven, and started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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Jennifer Holliday
Jennifer-Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960, Riverside, Texas) is an African-American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls showstopper and Grammy Award-winning R&B;/Pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."
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Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress.
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Jessye Norman
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Jim Clark (sheriff)
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922, Elba, Coffee County, Alabama - June 4, 2007) of Selma, Alabama, was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama from 1955 to 1966. He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches.
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John C. Calhoun
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John F. Kennedy
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Judy Garland
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
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Katherine Dunham
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
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Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien (born February 22, 1971) is a Filipino singer and actress. She is best known for her musical role Kim in Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World Awards, the first to win various international awards for a single role.
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Lena Horne
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Lennie Hayton
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Lillian Gish
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Luciano Pavarotti
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Lucille Ball
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Mack Gordon
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Mary Martin
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Merce Cunningham
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Michel Legrand
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Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in fourteen films together, including several subsequent Thin Man films.
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NAACP
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Natalia Makarova
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova (, born October 21, 1940) is an award-winning Soviet-Russian-born American prima ballerina. She has also won awards as an actress portraying a prima ballerina.
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Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein (January 13, 1904 (Old Style: December 31, 1903)December 21, 1992) was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.
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Noble Sissle
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Patti LuPone
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Paul Robeson
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert singer and film actor, who became noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. A forerunner of the civil rights movement, Robeson was also an All-American athlete, lawyer, writer, trade unionist, peace activist, Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate, and a recipient of the Spingarn Medal and Stalin Peace Prize. Robeson achieved international notoriety for both his artistic accomplishments and his outspoken radical beliefs, which largely clashed with the Jim Crow climate of the pre-civil rights United States. As a result, he became a prime target of the political right during the McCarthyist era. Despite being one of the most internationally famous cultural figures of the 20th century, persecution by the US government and media virtually erased Robeson from mainstream US culture and subsequent interpretations of US history; including civil rights and black history.
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Peggy Lee
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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. "Mr. C.", as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. His combined success on television and popular recordings was not matched by any other artist of the time. A popular television performer and recording artist, Perry Como produced numerous hit records with record sales so high the label literally stopped counting at Como's behest. His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world and his popularity seemingly had no geographical or language boundaries. Como's appeal spanned generations and he was widely respected for both his professional standards and the conduct in his personal life. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all." Composer Ervin Drake said of him,"... [o]ccasionally someone like Perry comes along and won't 'go with the flow' and still prevails in spite of all the bankrupt others who surround him and importune him to yield to their values. Only occasionally."
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson (March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American jazz pianist.
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Quincy Jones
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Ralph Blane
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a film critic for Time magazine, having also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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Roger L. Stevens
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Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991), was a Bohemian-born pianist.
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Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators began a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain".
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Samuel R. Scottron
Samuel Raymond Scottron was a prominent African-American inventor from Brooklyn, N.Y. who began his career as a barber. He was born in Philadelphia in 1841. He received his engineering degree from Cooper Union in 1878.
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Saul Chaplin
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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet (, loo-MET; born June 25, 1924) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982), all of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director.
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Simon Rattle
Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE, FRSA, (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (BPO).
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Teddy Wilson
Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist whose sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. He is considered one of the most influential jazz pianists of all time.
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Teresa Stratas
Teresa Stratas, OC (born May 26, 1938, Toronto, Ontario), is a retired Canadian operatic soprano.
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Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
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Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal caused her to relinquish her title early. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, earning Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations.
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Virgil Thomson
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W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor.
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William Schuman
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Horne, Lena Filmography
- Strange Frame: Love & Sax (2012)
- The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011)
- The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards (2011)
- The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2010)
- Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
- Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman (2007)
- A Life in Words and Music (2007)
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
- Andy Williams: My Favorite Duets (2004)
- The Masters Behind the Musicals (2004)
- Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002)
- It's Black Entertainment (2002)
- Then I'll Be Free to Travel Home (2001)
- The Nightclub Years (2001)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen (1999)
- Classified X (1998)
- Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998)
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
- Sinatra Duets (1994)
- All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
- An Evening with Lena Horne (1994)
- A Century of Women (1994)
- Entertaining the Troops (1994)
- The 36th Annual Grammy Awards (1994)
- That's Entertainment! III Behind the Screen (1994)
- That's Entertainment! III (1994)
- That's Entertainment! III (1994)
- Aretha Franklin: Duets (1993)
- The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993)
- American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993)
- 1993 Essence Awards (1993)
- One on One: Classic Television Interviews (1993)
- The American Film Institute Salute to Elizabeth Taylor (1993)
- Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992)
- 60 Minutes: The Entertainers (1991)
- Victor Borge Birthday Gala (1990)
- That's Black Entertainment (1990)
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1989)
- The 8th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1987)
- Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening (1987)
- Brown Sugar (1986)
- Muppet Video: Muppet Moments (1985)
- Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
- DTV: Golden Oldies (1984)
- The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983)
- The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982)
- Night of 100 Stars (1982)
- The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981)
- The Wiz (1978)
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
- America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music (1976)
- Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974)
- That's Entertainment! (1974)
- That's Entertainment! (1974)
- Tony & Lena (1973)
- Keep U.S. Beautiful (1973)
- Harry and Lena (1970)
- Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
- Now (1965)
- Freedom Spectacular (1964)
- Lena (1964)
- The Royal Variety Performance 1964 (1964)
- At This Very Moment (1962)
- The Heart of Show Business (1957)
- Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
- A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 (1955)
- Duchess of Idaho (1950)
- Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)
- Words and Music (1948)
- Mantan Messes Up (1946)
- Studio Visit (1946)
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
- Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
- Harlem Hotshots (1945)
- Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944)
- Broadway Rhythm (1944)
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
- I Dood It (1943)
- Swing Fever (1943)
- Cabin in the Sky (1943)
- Thousands Cheer (1943)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
- Panama Hattie (1942)
- The Duke Is Tops (1938)
- Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Just One of Those Things
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Ain’t It the Truth
- Give Me Love
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Push De Button
- Speak Low
- The Rules of the Road
- You Don’t Have to Know the Language
- Napolean
- At Long Last Love
- I Concentrate on You
- Take It Slow, Joe
- Jule Styne Medley: A Ride on a Rainbow / Never Never Land / I Said No / Some People
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
- The Man I Love
- Watch What Happens
- I Will Wait for You
- Stormy Weather
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- The Man I Love
- I Feel So Smoochie
- Take Love Easy
- Love Of My Life
- 'Deed I Do
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- It's Mad, Mad Mad!
- He Makes Me Believe He's Mine
- I've Got The World On A String
- Is It Always Like This?
- Something To Live For
- Pass Me By
- A Foggy Day (In London Town)
- Where Or When
- The Lady Is A Tramp
- Watch What Happens
- Something
- Everybody's Talking
- The Fool on the Hill
- Yesterday
- Rocky Raccoon
- My Mood Is You
- Message to Michael
- Nightwind
- In My Life
- Every Time We Say Goodbye
- When I Fall in Love
- A Fine Romance
- It Could Happen to You
- September Song
- Whispering
- Sing My Heart
- Close Enough for Love
- Squeeze Me
- Ours
- Roundabout
- Hesitation Blues
- Joy
- The Eagle and Me
- Look to the Rainbow
- Beale Street Blues
- Tomorrow Mountain
- Out of This World
- Summertime
- Mad About the Boy
- Ridin' on the Moon
- Stormy Weather
- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
- Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
- I'll Be Around
- I Wonder What Became of Me
- Just One of Those Things
- Stormy Weather
- Come Runnin'
- From This Moment On
- A Cock-Eyed Optimist
- I Have Dreamed
- The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Wouldn't It Be Loverly
- What's Right for You (Is Right for Me)
- Sweet Thing
- That Old Feeling
- Stormy Weather
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Fun to Be Fooled
- I'd Do Anything
- Get Out of Town
- Darn That Dream
- Come on Strong
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- The Rules of the Road
- I Get the Blues When It Rains
- I Got Rhythm
- Ill Wind
- Moanin' Low
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- 'Deed I Do
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- Mad About the Boy
- Why Shouldn't I?
- Come to Baby, Do!
- Haunted Town
- I Want a Little Doggie
- Dat 'Ol Debbil Consequence
- I Want to Be Happy
- Where Is Love?
- Why I Was Born
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Love Can Change the Star
- I Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms
- Good for Nothing Joe
- Old Devil Moon
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- Papa Don't Preach to Me
- Honeysuckle Rose
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Lover Man
- Take Me
- My Blue Heaven
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- From This Moment On
- Night and Day
- Cuckoo in the Clock
- What'll I Do
- At Long Last Love
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- It's Love
- Love Me or Leave Me
- The Man I Love
- You're the One
- People Will Say We're in Love
- Don't Take Your Love From Me
- Love Is the Thing
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- At Long Last Love
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
- Love Me a Little Little
- Let Me Love You
- Mad About the Boy
- I'm Through With Love
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- You're My Thrill
- Stormy Weather
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Ill Wind
- The Man I Love
- Where or When
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Moanin' Low
- I Didn't Know About You
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- As Long as I Live
- I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- It's Love
- Let Me Love You
- It's All Right With Me
- People Will Say We're in Love
- Just in Time
- Get Out of Town
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Singin' in the Rain
- Just One of Those Things
- Stormy Weather
- Ain't It the Truth
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Moon River
- I Love Paris
- A Fine Romance
- Day Follows Day
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- Willow Weep for Me
- I Got a Worried Man
- You Know What to Do
- Never on Sunday
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- We'll Be Together Again
- I Got Rhythm
- I'm Confessin'
- I've Found a New Baby
- Stormy Weather
- Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
- People Will Say We're in Love
- Just in Time
- Bewitched
- I Get the Blues When It Rains
- I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
- The Man I Love
- One for My Baby
- Mad About the Boy
- Just One of Those Things
- At Long Last Love
- Get Out of Town
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Just My Luck
- Get Rid of Monday
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- Lover Man
- Love Can Change the Stars
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Night and Day
- Old Devil Moon
- Why I Was Born
- Poppa Don't Preach to Me
- My Blue Heaven
- From This Moment On
- Love Me or Leave Me
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Once in a Lifetime
- Meditation
- Good for Nothin' Joe
- I Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Man of Mine
- Cuckoo in the Clock
- Stormy Weather
- Take Me
- Jingle All the Way
- The Christmas Song
- Winter Wonderland
- White Christmas
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- Little Drummer Boy
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Silent Night
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Today I Love Everybody {From the Farmer Takes a Wife}
- Let Me Love You
- Come Runnin'
- Cole Porter Medley: How's Your Romance? / After You / Love of My Life / It's All Right With Me
- Mood Indigo / I'm Beginning to See the Light
- How Do You Say It
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Day in, Day Out
- New Fangled Tango
- I Love to Love
- From This Moment On {From Out of This World}
- Maybe
- The Man I Love
- Get Rid of Monday
- Jule Styne Medley: A Ride on a Rainbow / Never Never Land / I Said No / Some People
- You Don't Have to Know the Language
- Out of My Continental Mind
- Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley: A Cock-Eyed Optimist / I Have Dreamed / Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Harburg Medley: Thrill Me / What Is There to Say / The Begat
- Don't Commit the Crime
- Overture
- From This Moment On
- I Got a Name
- I'm Glad There Is You
- I Want to Be Happy (2)
- Copper Colored Gal (2)
- Raisin' the Rent (2)
- As Long as I Live
- Lady With the Fan
- Lena's Dialogue 'Cotton Club to Hollywood'
- Where or When (Hollywood Sequence)
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- Lena's Dialogue 'Hollywood'
- Just One of Those Things
- Stormy Weather, Part 1
- Love
- Lena's Dialogue 'Broadway'
- Push De Button
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Yesterday, When I Was Young (Hier Encore)
- 'Deed I Do
- Life Goes On
- Maybe
- Something to Live For
- Day Follows Day
- Prelude to a Kiss
- Love Like This Can't Last
- We'll Be Together Again
- A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
- Old Friend
- You're the One
- Havin' Myself a Time
- My Mood Is You
- I'll Always Leave the Door a Little Open
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
- Forever Was a Day
- I've Got to Have You
- My Buddy
- I'd Do Anything
- Love Is the Thing
- Fun to Be Fooled
- It's Love
- You're the One
- I Get the Blues When It Rains
- Darn That Dream
- I'm Through With Love
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
- It's Anybody's Spring
- The Rules of the Road
- Paradise
- I Got Rhythm
- I Understand
- It's a Lonesome Old Town
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- They Didn't Believe Me
- Come on Strong
- From This Moment On
- Take Me
- Night and Day
- Old Devil Moon
- More
- My Blue Heaven
- Cuckoo in the Clock
- Meditation
- By Myself
- Island in the West Indies
- Ours
- Falling in Love With Love
- He Loves Me
- Every Little Bit Hurts
- Stormy Weather
- Poppa Don't Preach to Me
- Honeysuckle Rose
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Lover Man
- Can't Help Lovin' That Man
- On a Wonderful Day Like Today
- Take the Moment
- I Wanna Be Around
- Feelin' Good
- Who Can I Turn To
- Less Than a Second
- Willow Weep for Me
- The Boy From Ipanema
- Softly as I Leave You
- And I Love Him
- Hello Young Lovers
- Singin' In the Rain
- In Love in Vain
- Never on a Sunday
- Somewhere
- All the Way
- Wives and Lovers
- It Had Better Be Tonight
- Moon River
- A Fine Romance
- I Love Paris
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- The Christmas Song
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- Winter Wonderland
- White Christmas
- Sleigh Ride
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- You're All I Want for Christmas
- Happy Holiday
- Our Winter Love
- That's What I Want for Christmas
- Love Turns Winter to Spring
- Baby It's Cold Outside
- Auld Lang Syne
- Stormy Weather
- Good for Nothin' Joe
- Diga Diga Do
- I Can't Give You Anything (but Love)
- Mad About the Boy
- As Long as I Live
- 'Deed I Do
- Once in a Lifetime
- Meantime
- Silent Spring
- Blowin' in the Wind
- The Best Things in Life Are
- Lost in the Stars
- Now
- Wouldn't It Be Lovely
- More Than You Know
- At Long Last Love
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Blue Prelude
- Little Girl Blue
- It's a Rainy Day
- Frankie and Johnny
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Just One Of Those Things
- The Spring
- Ain't It The Truth
- Life's Full O' Consequence
- Honey In The Honeycomb
- Honeysuckle Rose [stereo version]
- You're So Indiff'rent
- Jericho
- Brazilian Boogie
- Somebody Loves Me
- Tete A Tete At Tea Time / Solid Potato Salad
- Paper Doll
- Paper Doll [alternate]
- Trembling Of A Leaf
- Love
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- Why Was I Born
- Bill
- Where Or When
- The Lady Is A Tramp
- Baby, Come Out Of The Clouds
- If You Can Dream
- You Got Looks
- Stormy Weather
- Whispering
- More Than You Know
- At Long Last Love
- Where Or When
- St. Louis Blues
- I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
- As Long As I Live
- Little Girl Blue
- Old Fashioned Love
- My Man's Gone Now
- Blue Prelude
- Just Squeeze Me
- Hesitating Blues
- You Go To My Head
- Glad To Be Unhappy
- It's A Rainy Day
- Out Of Nowhere
- When I Fall in Love
- September Song
- I Wish I'd Met You
- A Fine Romance
- It Could Happen to You
- The Eagle and Me
- Look to the Rainbow
- Sing My Heart
- Round About
- Joy
- Ours
- Close Enough for Love
- I Won't Leave You Again
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- Black Is
- Maybe
- I've Got To Have You
- I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open
- You're The One
- Something To Live For
- Chelsea Bridge
- Singin' In The Rain
- Willow Weep For Me
- Stormy Weather
- I Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Old Devil Moon
- Night and Day
- Take Me
- Cuckoo in the Clock
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- From This Moment On
- Why Was I Born
- Poppa Don't Preach to Me
- My Blue Heaven
- Meditation
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Diga Diga Do
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- Mad About the Boy
- Rocky Raccoon
- Something
- Everybody's Talkin'
- In My Life
- Yesterday When I Was Young
- Watch What Happens
- My Mood Is You
- Message to Michael
- Nightwind
- Whispering
- It's a Rainy Day
- Little Girl Blue
- Old Fashioned Love
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
- Hesitation Blues
- Glad to be Unhappy
- At Long Last Love
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Blue Prelude
- My Man's Gone Now
- More Than You Know
- Beale Street Blues
- Frankie and Johnny
- The Lady is a Tramp
- 'Deed I Do
- Once in a Lifetime
- Meantime
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Blue Prelude
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Wouldn't It Be Lovely
- At Long Last Love
- More Than You Know
- Silent Spring
- Mad About the Boy
- Stormy Weather
- Good for Nothin' Joe
- Diga Diga Do
- As Long as I Live
- I Can't Give You Anything (But Love)
- Lost in the Stars
- Now (Styne/Comden/Green)
- Frankie & Johnny
- It's a Rainy Day
- Little Girl Blue
- The Best Things in Life Are Free
- Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms
- Papa Don't Preach to Me
- I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good
- My Blue Heaven
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Old Devil Moon
- Cuckoo in the Clock
- Lost in the Stars
- Meantime
- Silent Spring
- Meditation
- Take Me
- More
- Night & Day
- Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues
- Come Runnin'
- Maybe
- I've Got the World on a String
- Old Friend
- Something to Live For
- Mood Indigo
- Squeeze Me
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
- Yesterday When I Was Young
- How's Your Romance
- Why Shouldn't I
- Ours
- Just One of Those Things
- Band Introduction
- We'll Be Together Again (2)
- Watch What Happens (2)
- The Lady Is a Tramp (2)
- You're My Thrill
- The Captain and His Men
- Good-for-Nothin' Joe
- Haunted Town
- Love Me a Little Little
- Don't Take Your Love From Me
- Aunt Hagar's Blues
- Beale Street Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- As Long as I Live
- Where or When
- Ill Wind
- Mad About the Boy
- Out of Nowhere
- Stormy Weather
- The Man I Love
- Careless Love
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Prisoner of Love
- One for My Baby
- I Didn't Know About You
- Moanin' Low
- That's What Love Did to Me
- You're My Thrill
- Good-For-Nothin' Joe
- Love Me a Little Little
- Don't Take Your Love From Me
- Stormy Weather
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Ill Wind
- The Man I Love
- Where or When
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Moanin' Low
- I Didn't Know About You
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- As Long as I Live
- I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- It's Love
- Let Me Love You
- It's All Right With Me
- People Will Say We're in Love
- Just in Time
- Get Out of Town
Born: 1917-06-30
Died: 2010-05-09
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Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943)
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- Duration: 5:05
- Published: 28 Jan 2008
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Here's the full version of a performance that can be found truncated elsewhere on YouTube -- from the 1943 film of the same name, the great Lena Horne delivers a sizzling performance of her signature song. (I wish I had the full dance that follows it, which includes some amazing ballet. If anyone has a full-length version, please post it or get in touch with me!)
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Lena Horne - Stormy Weather/If You Believe
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- Duration: 7:36
- Published: 05 Aug 2007
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Lena Horne really delivers on a reprise of her classic "Stormy Weather" in a medley with her latter-day anthem "If You Believe" from the musical 'The Wiz'. Superb!
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LENA HORNE Sings Love Me or Leave Me and The Eagle & Me 1965
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- Duration: 5:37
- Published: 28 Jun 2007
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Lena Horne is really cooking so WATCH OUT! You may be burned!
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Lena Horne ( Someone To Watch Over Me) 1917-2010
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- Duration: 3:12
- Published: 11 Sep 2010
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Lene Horne 1917-2010. What a beautiful, classy lady with a beautiful voice. I hope you like this slideshow of remembrance. Peace and Love Phillip
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Sesame Street: Lena Horne and Kermit Sing Bein' Green
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- Duration: 2:56
- Published: 30 Jul 2008
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
For more videos and games check out our new website at www.sesamestreet.org In this video Lena Horne sings with Kermit the Frog. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
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Sesame Street: Lena Horne and Muppets Sing The Alphabet
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- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 15 Dec 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
For more videos and games check out our new website at www.sesamestreet.org In this clip, Lena Horne sings with the Muppets. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
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'Where or When' - Lena Horne
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- Duration: 3:03
- Published: 04 May 2008
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
By Request... Another winning track from Lena's contribution to the 'Ultimate Jazz & Blues Collection'...So smooth - so moving...Awesome! Transcribed from Lena Horne with Orchestra Conducted by Lou Bring, from vocals by Lena Horne, recorded December 15, 1941. words & music by... (Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers) Lyrics... It seems we've stood and talked like this before, We looked at each other in the same way then, But I can't remember where or when. The clothes you're wearing are the clothes you wore, The smile you are smiling, you were smiling then, But I can't remember where or when. Some things that happened for the first time, Seem to be happening again, And so it seems that we have met before, And laughed before, And loved before, But who knows where or when? Some things that happened for the first time, Seem to be happening again, Hmmm, so it seems that we have met before, And laughed before, And loved before, But who knows where or when? (Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers)
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''The Lady Is A Tramp'' - Words and Music, 1948
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- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 26 Feb 2011
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
The great Lena Horne simply at one of her most best performance! Here she's singing and dancing to an very peppy and funky jazz number! Simply love this song always!! "The Lady Is a Tramp" Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Lorenz Hart From the musical "Babes in Arms" (1937) Performed by Lena Horne Starring: June Allyson, Perry Como, Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Cyd Charisse, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern, Marshall Thompson, Janet Leigh Cameo Appearance: Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Vera-Ellen, Mel Tormé, Ramon Blackburn, Royce Blackburn, Dee Turnell
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Sanford and Son - A Visit from Lena Horne 1-3
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- Duration: 8:02
- Published: 26 Feb 2009
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Fred and Lamont take a tour through the NBC studios
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LENA HORNE Sings "Moon River" 1965
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 22 Jul 2007
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
An unusually subtle performance by Lena from the mid-1960s.
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Lena Horne Stormy Weather
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 17 Sep 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Kaylena, this is for you.
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LENA HORNE sings "You'd Better Love Me" 1967
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- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 03 Aug 2007
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
This song is from the musical "High Spirits." Lena sings a lively uptempo rendition of this song.
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MAMA LENA HORNE - DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME
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- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
AN EVENING - 1995
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Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music 1981 Tony Awards
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- Duration: 5:19
- Published: 14 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Aug 2012
Sesame Street: Lena Teaches Grover To Say "How Do You Do?"
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- Duration: 3:52
- Published: 06 Aug 2008
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
For more videos and games check out our new website at www.sesamestreet.org In this video, Grover learns not to be shy. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
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Ain't It the Truth by Lena Horne
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- Duration: 4:29
- Published: 27 Jan 2008
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
www.midwestatheist.blogspot.com Ain't It the Truth by Lena Horne For more information on the great Freedom From Religion Foundation, go to http
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Lena Horne on Rosie O'Donnell 1997
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- Duration: 7:58
- Published: 22 Jun 2008
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Lena on Rosie's old talk show in 1997 upon the event of her 80th b-day
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Lena Horne sings "The Man I Love."
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- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 10 May 2010
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Lena Horne sings "The Man I Love" with the band in the background. For contact and licensing information please visit www.globalimageworks.com.
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Lena Horne & Perry Como - New England Medley 1965
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- Duration: 3:24
- Published: 01 Apr 2012
- Updated: 22 Sep 2012
Lena Horne and Perry Como sing this rare medley that includes classics like Moonlight in Vermont and Old Cape Cod. The show was performed in Boston in 1965.
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Lena Horne NOW
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- Duration: 4:08
- Published: 30 Aug 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
THIS IS THE HIT SONG FROM THAT ALBUM!
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Lena Horne - It Had Better Be Tonight
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- Duration: 2:19
- Published: 26 Jan 2010
- Updated: 22 Sep 2012
Track 20 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild, Cool & Swingin' Too!
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Lena Horne Poetry Reading
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- Duration: 3:14
- Published: 11 Jul 2011
- Updated: 11 Jul 2011
Poetry reading from the book "A Poetic Tribute to the Legends Who Lunched with Oprah." This poem is dedicated to Lena Horne. She was 1 of the 25 legends invited to join Oprah for her Legends Luncheon.
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Lena Horne - Love - Black Entertainment
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- Duration: 4:41
- Published: 22 Apr 2010
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
This is a rare performance of Lena Horne from an MGM movie from the 1940's. The gorgeous, great Lena Horne gives a wonderful performance, but also notice the other black women in this part. They were too actresses aspiring to make it, but was reduced to bit parts and maid parts or dancing parts, because Hollywood wasn't ready to make black women glamour girls, of course Lena Horne was the only one Hollywood was willing to let be a star, but only in a limited way. Some of the other black actresses in this scene is the beautiful Suzette Harbin who is flirting with another woman's man, she appeared in many films, and was a fine actress. The other woman who jumped on Suzette was, Marie Bryant, a dance director in Hollywood, dancer, and singer, and good friend of Lena's, Vivian Dandridge, sister of Dorothy Dandridge is in this scene, and a dancer by the name of Cleo Herndon. These women were the black glamour girls of Hollywood, that we shouldn't forget. They helped in making the movies Lena Horne starred in successful with their dancing and beauty as well, and we need to remember them too. The women in this part were also in Cabin In The Sky and Stormy Weather, and most of Lena's movies. They helped in opening the doors as well.
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TWO years ago, American author and journalist James Gavin was in Palm Springs, California, when he bumped into singing legend Mary Wilson. One of the founding members of Motown female supergroup the Supremes, Wilson asked Gavin how she could get in touch with legendary singer and actress Lena Horne,...(size: 5.3Kb)
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Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes, will perform a tribute to famed actress, singer and civil rights activist the late Lena Horne at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Wilson, a Las Vegan since the 1980s, stars in "Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project" on Friday and Saturday in...(size: 2.6Kb)
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Las Vegas resident Mary Wilson, who was a Supreme and one of the famous trio’s founders, will be performing in a tribute show aptly named, “Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project,” in the new Cabaret Jazz Club at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, May 11 and 12. The showbased on James Gavin’s...(size: 7.1Kb)
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WASHINGTON -- World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, singer Lena Horne and golfer Jack Nicklaus would be added to the of Congressional Gold Medal recipients under measures that have cleared the House. The action comes as the House prepares to vote this week to create a Mark Twain commemorative coin to...(size: 3.0Kb)
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When I was a young singing actress, there were a few artists I wanted to emulate-Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lena Horne,...(size: 0.8Kb)
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When the jazz singer Nnenna Freelon was a little girl, she recalled in her show, “Lena: A Lovesome Thing,” on Wednesday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, Lena Horne was “held up as the standard of beauty and pride.” Blog ArtsBeat The latest on the arts, coverage...(size: 7.8Kb)
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The stage at the NAACP Image Awards on Friday night honored those nominated for their contributions to the NAACP as well as those who have blazed the way in the past. In two separate sections, the legends Lena Horne and Aretha Franklin both were given their moment. The tribute, a reminder of who...(size: 2.6Kb)
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Just last year, the sky became a little darker as the world lost one of its stars. Lena Horne was truly a multi-talented icon. Known for her elegance and beauty, Horne was a gifted artist in the fields of acting, song and dance. Ms. Horne was also involved in the Civil...(size: 1.8Kb)
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Oscars 2011: Halle Berry pays tribute, but who was Lena Horne? -- If you are under a certain age, you might not be familiar with the singer that actor Halle Berry paid tribute to Sunday night at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. Who was Lena Horne, and why does she mean so much to Halle Berry? Lena...(size: 3.3Kb)
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 Horne in her stage show, Nine O'Clock Revue, 1961. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lena Mary Calhoun Horne |
| Born | (1917-06-30)June 30, 1917 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 9, 2010(2010-05-09) (aged 92) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Broadway, traditional pop, vocal jazz |
| Occupations | Singer, dancer, actress, civil rights activist, recording artists |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1933–2000 |
| Labels | MGM, RCA Victor, United Artists, Blue Note, Qwest/Warner Bros. Records |
| Associated acts | Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Judy Garland, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., Barbra Streisand, Teddy Wilson |
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.[1]
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and 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 three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.
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Early life[link]
Horne was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.[1] Reported to be descended from the John C. Calhoun family, both sides of her family were a mixture of European American, Native American, and African American descent, and each belonged to what W. E. B. Du Bois called "The Talented Tenth", the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated blacks, some of whom were mixed race.[2][3]
Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne, Jr. (1892–1970),[4][5] a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three and moved to an upper-middle-class black community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[6][7] Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1895–1985), daughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron, was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Scottron's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was a Senegalese slave.[8] Lena Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne.[5]
When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia.[9] For several years, she traveled with her mother.[10] From 1927 to 1929 she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, who was dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute in Fort Valley, Georgia [10] and who would later become an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[11]
From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old.[10] She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn which has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved in with her father in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.[12]
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Road to Hollywood[link]
In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton 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. A few years later she joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she recorded her first record release, a 78rpm single issued by Decca Records. 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 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 to headline a nightclub revue on the West Coast, and was replaced by Linda Keene.[citation needed]
Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops (later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Horne's songs from Boogie Woogie Dream were later released individually as soundies. Horne was primarily a nightclub performer during this period, and it was during a 1943 club engagement in Hollywood that talent scouts approached Horne to work in pictures. She chose Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and became the first black performer to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio. November 1944 she was featured in an episode of the popular radio series, 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 with MGM in Panama Hattie (1942) and performed the title song of Stormy Weather based loosely on the life of Adelaide Hall, (1943), which she made at 20th Century Fox, on loan from MGM. She appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky (also 1943), but was never featured in a leading role because of her race and the fact that films featuring her had to be re-edited for showing in states where theaters could 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; a notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, although one number was cut because it was considered too suggestive by the censors. "Ain't it the Truth" was the song (and scene) cut before the release of the film Cabin in the Sky. It featured Horne singing "Ain't it the Truth", while taking a bubble bath (considered too "risqué" by the film's executives). 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.
In Ziegfeld Follies (1946) she performed "Love" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Horne wanted to be considered for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat (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 personal friend in real life, due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films. 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 overdubbed by actress Annette Warren (Smith) for the theatrical release.
Changes of direction[link]
By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She only made two major appearances in MGM films during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's film swan song); and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her political views.[13] She returned to the screen three more times, playing chanteuse Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda in The Wiz (film) (1978), and co-hosting the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III, in which she was candid about her treatment by the studio.
After leaving Hollywood, Horne established herself as one of the premiere 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 Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. In 1957, a live album entitled, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria, became the biggest selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA-Victor label. In 1958, Horne was nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" (for her part in the "Calypso" musical Jamaica) which, at Lena's request featured her longtime friend Adelaide Hall.
From the late 1950s through 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.and she also had 2 kids
In 1970, she co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour-long Harry & Lena 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. 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 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 N Y 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 noted that only three people at the sold out Metropolitan Opera House asked for their money back. He asked to be introduced to Lena 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 (formerly the Trafalgar, the Billy Rose, and the National) 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, the entire show was performed again and videotaped for television broadcast and home video release. The tour began a few days later at Tanglewood (Massachusetts) during the July 4, 1982 weekend. The Lady and Her Music toured 41 cities in the U.S. and Canada through 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 her one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which also played to acclaim at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1984.[14] 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. In 1989, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The 1990s found Horne considerably more active in the recording studio - all the more remarkable considering she was approaching her 80th year. Following her 1993 performance at a tribute to the musical legacy of her good friend Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington's longtime collaborator), she decided to record an album composed largely of Strayhorn's and Ellington's songs the following year, We'll Be Together Again. To coincide with the release of the album, Horne made what would be her final concert performances at New York's Supper Club and Carnegie Hall. That same year, Horne also lent her vocals to a recording of "Embraceable You" on Sinatra's Duets II album. Though the album was largely derided by critics, the Sinatra-Horne pairing was generally regarded as its highlight.[citation needed]
In 1995, a 'live' album capturing her 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. Thereafter, Horne essentially 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.[citation needed]
Civil rights activism[link]
Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen",[15] according to her Kennedy Center biography. Because the U.S. Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she wound up putting on a 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. She was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, SNCC, and the National Council of Negro Women. She also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws.[16] She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965.
Personal life[link]
Horne married Louis Jordan Jones in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a best-selling author) was born there.[17] and a son, Edwin Jones (born February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970)[4] who died of kidney disease.[5] Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944.
Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, 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.[18]
In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an Ebony, May 1980 interview she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business, but had learned to love him in a way.[19]
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.[20] Horne's other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's three children, Thomas, William, and Lena.
Death[link]
Horne died on Mothers Day, May 9, 2010, in New York City of heart failure. Horne's funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York City. Thousands gathered to mourn her, including Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Lauren Bacall, Audra McDonald, Vanessa L. Williams .
Legacy[link]
In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biopic. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne 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.[citation needed]
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 longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings featured Horne in remarkably secure voice for a woman of her years, and include versions of such signature songs as "Something to Live For", "Chelsea Bridge", and "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 through 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.[21]
Awards and recognition[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
| Year | Category | Title | Genre | Label | Result |
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| 1995 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance | An Evening with Lena Horne | Jazz | Blue Note | Winner |
| 1989 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Winner | |||
| 1988 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance – Female | The Men in My Life | Jazz | Three Cherries | Nominee |
| 1988 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance – Duo or Group | "I Won't Leave You Again" | Jazz | Three Cherries | Nominee |
| 1981 | Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | Pop | Qwest | Winner |
| 1981 | Best Cast Show Album | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | Pop | Qwest | Winner |
| 1962 | Best Female Vocal Performance | Porgy and Bess | Pop | RCA | Nominee |
| 1961 | Female Solo Vocal Performance | Lena at the Sands | Pop | RCA | Nominee |
Other awards[link]
| Year | Organization | Category | Result | Notes |
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| 2006 | Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site |
International Civil Rights Walk of Fame[24] | Inducted | |
| 1999 | NAACP Image Award | Outstanding Jazz Artist | Winner | |
| 1994 | Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award | Songwriters Hall of Fame | Winner | |
| ? | Hollywood Chamber of Commerce | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Winner | Honor (motion pictures) |
| ? | Hollywood Chamber of Commerce | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Winner | Honor (recordings) |
| 1987 | American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers |
The ASCAP Pied Piper Award[25] | Winner | Given to entertainers who have made significant contributions to words and music |
| 1985 | Emmy Award | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | Nominee | |
| 1984 | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
Kennedy Center Honors[26] | Winner | For extraordinary talent, creativity, and perseverance |
| 1980 | Howard University | Honorary doctorate[27] | Honored | |
| 1980 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress – Musical | Winner | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music |
| 1980 | New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | Winner | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music |
| 1981 | Tony Awards | Special Citation | Winner | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music |
| 1957 | Tony Awards | Best Actress | Nominee | "Jamaica" |
Filmography[link]
Film[link]
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Discography[link]
Albums[link]
Singles[link]
As featured vocalist[link]
- A:"That's What Love Did To Me" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) / B:"I Take To You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren)
Issued in 1936 on 78rpm 10" vinyl by Decca Records on Decca 778B. Credits Noble Sissle and His Orchestra,[28] Lena Horne was credited as Helena Horne for this recording. Recorded on the 3rd of November 1936 in New York.
- "Stormy Weather" (1943)
- "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955) #19 U.S. Pop
References[link]
- ^ a b "Lena Horne - About the Performer | American Masters | PBS". PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/lena-horne/about-the-performer/487/. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
- ^ William Ruhlmann (2008). "Artist: Lena Horne Biography". Allmusic. http://www.answers.com/topic/lena-horne. Retrieved 2008-08-010.
- ^ The Economist (May 20, 2010). "Lena Horne, entertainer, died on May 9th, aged 92". BlackAmericaWeb. http://www.economist.com/node/16160124?story_id=16160124. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
- ^ a b Vh1 biography
- ^ a b c McLellan, Dennis; Nelson, Valerie J. (2010-05-10). "Lena Horne dies at 92; singer and civil rights activist who broke barriers". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-horne-20100510,0,1501683,full.story. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
- ^ "Pittsburgh Played Role In Lena Horne's Life". KDKA. 2010-05-10. http://kdka.com/entertainment/Lena.Horne.Pittsburgh.2.1686377.html. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
- ^ Brewer, John M. (2007). Pittsburgh Jazz. Arcadia Publishing. p. 14. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/917800738549804|917800738549804]].
- ^ Schickel (1965), p. 7
- ^ "Lena Horne on Tonight Show 1982 - Part 1". NBC/YouTube. 1982. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcuwCNIJVE. Retrieved "2010-05-10.
- ^ a b c "Lena Horne". New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1691. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
- ^ Augustus F. Hawkins (November 18, 1992) (trasnscript). Black Leadership in Los Angeles: Tape Number: II, Side Two, pp. 66-67. Interview with Clyde Woods. http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb858011v4&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- ^ Lena Horne Post-Gazette profile
- ^ "American Masters: Lena Horne". PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/horne_l.html. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- ^ The Times, obituary 11 May 2010.
- ^ Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Lena Horne
- ^ Lena Horne biography
- ^ Gail Lumet Buckley profile
- ^ Telegraph obituary
- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (1980-05). Ebony. http://books.google.com/?id=NDbcot0HasEC&lpg=PA38&dq=Ebony%201980%20Lena%20Horne&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (2008-10-10). "Ella unenchanted goes to a wedding - Demme explores concept of family". Chicago Sun-Times. p. B1.
- ^ "'The King's Speech', Colin Firth, Natalie Portman Take Top Honors at 2011 Academy Awards". Moviefone. http://www.popeater.com/2011/02/28/2011-oscar-winners. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- ^ Grammy Award Database
- ^ "&Nbsp". Los Angeles Times. http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory.
- ^ International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
- ^ ASCAP Award
- ^ Kennedy Center Database
- ^ Kennedy Center Horne bio
- ^ http://www.redhotjazz.com/sissleo.html
Bibliography[link]
- Horne, Lena and Schickel, Richard, Lena, Doubleday, 1965 ISBN 978-0-385-08034-7
- Haskins, James and Benson, Kathleen Lena, Stein and Day, 1984 ISBN 0-8128-2853-4
- Gavin, James, Stormy Weather, The Life of Lena Horne, Atria 2009 ISBN 978-0-7432-7143-1
External links[link]
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- Lena Horne at the Internet Movie Database
- Lena Horne at the Internet Broadway Database
- Lena Horne discography at Discogs
- Lena-Horne Tribute Site
- Entry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Biography
- Remembering Lena Horne - slideshow by Life magazine
- Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
- Lena Horne turns 80
- Remembering the great Lena Horne
- Pioneering African American Actress, Singer and Civil Rights Activist Lena Horne, 92, Dies - video report by Democracy Now!
- Literature on Lena Horne
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| Name | Horne, Lena |
| Alternative names | Horne, Lena Mary Calhoun |
| Short description | Singer, actress, activist |
| Date of birth | 1917-06-30 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Date of death | 2010-05-09 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York, U.S. |
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