Lena Horne: A Trailblazing Star 

What a crime...all that beauty, charisma and talent -- and how little she was ever given to show them. But I'll never forget "The lady and her music" from the 80s---saw it several times, she tore the place down.

My ex boss, Ms Horne and she was funny and stern at the same time and also generous! God Bless her Soul and thank you for the words of wisdom that you gave to us for the years that I was working for you. I brag and will always brag about the fabulous human being that you were and still are to be. ChinaDoll of the Platters

A magnificently regal star, both in the movies and in life--so grateful to have a beautiful autographed picture of her.

She is surely missed. Thanks for sharing this past interview before her death.

As a young guy I can't help but notice how attractive she is - even in her older age.

Her 20's wig is perfection, she looks like Louise Brooks and so glamorous, she kept her glamor and to have that skin quality at nearly 80, incredible

Wonderful that her father so forcefully took up for her!

Wow that was amazing

The irony is that every musical clip filmed at MGM showcased a spectacular Lena Horne. She didn't realize that seen today each film performance are absolute classics in every which way.

I love her! Her class and dignity was impeccable A!

I went to see Lena when she did a one woman show in Los Angeles. I think it was at the Music Center. The audience loved her. You could feel the love radiating back and forth between Lena and the audience. It was an evening of Song and Lena that I will never forget. ...Rowby.

Lena Horne had so much talent and beauty. Here two albums with Harry Belafonte are my favorites.

One of the greatest stars ever

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Always a most attractive woman with a great sense of style.Lena comes across as refreshingly non-bitter.Thank you for this posting.

Wonderful! I loved Lena Horne every since I was a little guy growing up in the 60's and 70's thanks to my wonderful grandparents who again blessed me in the 80's with a ticket to A Lady and Her Music.

I never think of her as an actress. Wonderful singer and entertainer.

For one of the ALL TIME GREATS in black entertainment as well as a true pioneer she is extremely humble. I didn’t hear a single arrogant breath out her period.

She was monument actress and very humbled

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I love what she says about placing an entire people on one person and what a burden that is on them. She felt it in the 1940s. I hope wherever she is, she can see that there is more representation and it isn't weighed on one person.

thank you so much for the interviews. I love Lena Horne so much!

My Mom had a collection of 78 records and an old-fashioned record player. When I was a kid, I would play the records, and two of my favorites were "Stormy Weather" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". I think the latter is her greatest song.

Great Lena Horne video.

I am a big fan on Lena Horne and a lot of other actors. Why was Bill Robinson (Bojangles) not in Cabin In The Sky made in the same year as Stormy Weather?

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Who does these interviews? I like how she doesn't interject - just asks the questions and fills in info if the star can't remember.

Mrs. Horne is very beautiful, impressive and a sophisticated Iconic black representative of survival of an African American! ❤

It’s funny it definitely could be just my perception, but you can almost tell the quality of the interviewer by the person being interviewed. She (that is Ms.Horne) looks like she was just really politely tolerating this interviewer....Granted, well-known stars of her caliber do so many interviews, and naturally, they just get bored with the same boring questions and topics, so that could also be it. But I’m just picking up “let me just tolerate you” vibes. Lena Horne seemed here to be her gracious, classy self, as it would seem to me. No doubt any Black person living in the times that Lena Horne lived through surely honed, and perfected the skillful art of having to be gracious and steady at all times- even in the presence of the egregious ignorance that mostly prevailed in Hollywood, as well as most all of America.

Awesome! I hadn't seen this since it first aired in the '90s. It was a wonderful interview. Lena is insightful, intelligent, and still beautiful. ❤👍

I have always felt that Lena HOrne had more sex appeal than ElizabethTaylor or Marilyn Monroe. I think it comes across here as it does in the `cameo` singing roles from the films. Good interview. One observation though. Why didn`t the interviewer make it clear that Lennie Hayton was a White musician? And follow up with what a mixed race marriage was like back then? Also about Lena`s mother, an actress, who passed for Latin? Big Gap in the interviewer`s knowledge. Horne did do dramatic roles but not at MGM. She did race films before being signed by Metro. In 1938 she did `The Duke is Tops` for Million Dollar Productions. She had not developed that angular style of the MGM STudio days. She was pleasantly plump and had a voluptuous personality. Charming! When she mentions here about wanting to be the next Jeanette MacDonald I thought she was being clever. When you watch the film `The Duke is Tops` you see her style is very much in the style of MacDonald. Probably thought being light they`d pass her off as White as they tried to do with Rita Moreno and as was done with Merle Oberon (Indian) For some reason this did not happen. Perhaps on account of Horne`s bolshie father who bossed LB Mayer and told him his daughter would not appear as a `domestic` inasmuch as he pays for her maid.

There was not so much mentioned about her 'gigs' with Noble Sissel and Charlie Barnett Orchestras. I loved her renditions of Where Or When and The Lady Is A Tramp from Words And Music 1948. She recorded and filmed Liza with Avon Long for Ziegfeld Follies (1945), but the film had to be cut down due to running time. Liza and some other numbers were cut out before the release. I wonder whether any negatives or bits remain of Liza!? It would be another treasure from the MGM vaults.😊👍

Les Martin Jr. Lena Horne was one of the Classes,sexy, prettiest Black women that I ever seen.she Paved the way for most if not all of the Black Actresses and Singers in the Business that came behind her. Rest In Peace,Lena Horne...

Have loved her for so long❤

When I first saw a picture of Lena (when I was a child in the early 70s) I thought she was white. All I knew was that Lena was my Dad's favourite female singer (Bing and Dean Martin were his male faves). I loved her singing straight away. It took a long time for me to find out about Lena's activism and tremendous courage. She is one of my heroines, as well as one of my favourite singers. And such a beautiful woman. This is a great interview!

My God....all the movie roles and theatrical productions she could have done. She could have had a totally different career.

Wonderful!

Her early career was rather unfortunate due to the racism of the era, but she was later able to come into her own as an entertainer and fully blossom away from Hollywood.

HATTIE MAC DONALD... WAS A STAR...........DONNA DRAKE PASSED FOR WHITE............................WHERES THE REST...............????????/ SHE IS SOOO INTELLIGENT & SMART...LOVE HER.........

A strong, intelligent and beautiful woman.

Trailblazer for Real. Great entertainer

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Lena Horne did a unscripted interview years before she died in which she talked about the advantage of having a Caucasian mate/lover,.She said in her own words that a White man could afford a black- woman protection and priveledges that a Blackman could never.She said the whites would kill the blackman before they allowed him equal priveledges,they she saw it done".That's why her daughter Gail married that unattractive Sidney Lumet..their divorce...and her subsequent marriage to another Caucasian...My mother knew Lena Horne very well when she lived in Stuyvesant Heights in Brooklyn...a little known fact. Her and Richard Widmark were lovers...she lived with him in his house in Hollywood..his white neighbors in her own words treated her disrespectful and Richard Widmark did nothing about it was a he cause of their break up.

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Alicia Keys should play her in a biopic. she looks jut like her

It's interesting they created a makeup just for her, light Egyptian and wonder if they still use it

I remember back in 2004 there's was a biopic in motion for ABC, and Janet Jackson was producing and starrring in it, but after the Super Bowl debacle, Ms. Horne didn't want her to be apart of the production so she left, but the entire film got scrapped bc other creatives walked out when Janet did. Although I'm a big Janet fan I think it was divine intervention because, she was, supposedly, going to actually sing all of Hornes music and as I stated before, love Janet but, real talk, she's not exactly a powerful vocalist.

It was a good thing she brought her Daddy

She was fire, mortality is so lame.

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Miss Lina is so beautiful

Lovely, talented Ms. Lena Horna. I do not understand why TCM chose to let their interviewer, on numerous interviews, ask questions without a mic. Unnecessarily distracting.

Fred Sanford loved her!!!

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When she says Spanish, wasn't she actually mostly of Spanish/Portuguese ancestry ?

Lol,she says Afro American, difficult or confusing for her being from the 40's 50's to say African American, probably weird terminology for her and Africa is a continuous with ethnically diverse dna countries , she probably didn't understand being from another time,but went with it

VANITY/ JIM CROW, least she escaped playing a maid, and pass the brown paper bag.

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i've heard yjis interviewer with serveral other stars. not good. imcluding her rather shrill voice.

She is a little too fair but always dark in nature.

I 2as never a fan of Lena. She had a magnetic personality but her acting wasn't great

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