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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, ... Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City.
Adelaide Hall, star of the Cotton Club Cab Calloway was another of the original Cotton Club performers. Ethel Waters starred at the Cotton Club Lena Horne as a young girl was featured at the Cotton Club. Dorothy Dandridge, entertainer at the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City.
Bandleader Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz" and "Long About Midnight" at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York before going to a house party and performing "Jitterbug". In the final sequence, a young Lena Horne can be seen as a Cotton Club dancer doing the jitterbug. [2]
The ViacomCBS-backed cable network is developing Blackbird: Lena Horne and America and will tell her story from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, through World War II and stardom of the ...
Lena Horne made history this week as the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named in her honor.
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The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line entertainers who, from 1934, ... Bob Wallace, Lena Horne, Dolly McCormack, the Cotton Club Boys, ...
Lena Horne (1917–2010), [1] is an American singer and actress. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a band singer and nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood where she had small parts in numerous movies, and much more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather (1943).