Lena Horne (Actor)

Reviews of Lena Horne Movies

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Movies starring Lena Horne have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days - released in 2010 - is Lena Horne's highest rated movie, with a score of 96% based on 2 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Lena Horne is Broadway Rhythm - released in 1944 - with a score of 45% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Lena Horne was (1917-2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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. 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. Horne died on May 9, 2010 in New York City.

During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.

Lena Horne has acted in films with Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, Esther Williams and Eleanor Powell.

Lena Horne has worked with these film directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Roy Del Ruth and Sidney Lumet.