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-Lena
Horne left home at the age of thirteen and started her professional
career dancing in the chorus at the Cotton
Clubin Harlem New York at Sixteen years of age.
Lena's first movie role was "The
Duke Is Tops" with Duke
Ellington(also of the Cotton Club).
-Lena
was plagued by racism by the management's of the places
she performed, at times Lena would rebel at the treatment
she received. Despite this, Lena would become a legend among
Stars and open the way for many performers who were to followed
her. Lena was the first African American signed to a long-term
studio contract.
-She
performed in New York nightclubs, on Broadway, and touring
with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra as well as becoming a
movie actress and would become the highest paid black actor
in the country. In 1947, Horne married for the second time,
to composer Lennie Hayton, a white man, and the two moved
to Paris, where at the time, interracial marriages were
more accepted.
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