Lena Horne- JELOUS mother & her interracial marriage to further her career! + Her Hollywood REGRETS! 

I wonder if she ever communicated with Dorothy Dandridge? Ms. Horne was able to live to be 90..

Heads up there is a typo in the title Jelous - Jealous

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Yes she was unapologetically herself and did the best she could for that time to represent and advocate.

@@KarineAlourde exactly!!!!!! She was very woke and she always represented black women very well I just admire she never tried to hide her black Identity even though she could have and she would have gotten more roles but she was always very pro black and wanted to help pave the way for black people in showbusiness

She didn’t look like a white women 🤨

@@jciv9149 She looked like a Metizo Hispanic woman.

My mother felt the same way. She said that Lena said that she never thought of passing and that she was proud of her black heritage.

I love that!!

Ugh! WHAT A DOLL!!! I’m so inspired!

So classy and lovely !

Wow that ran chills down my Spine. That was her favorite word-"Child" and then whatever else she would say..Im glad you met her. She was beautiful....

Thank you for sharing what a beautiful experience

YES...SHE WAS A PHENOMENAL WOMAN.

Facts

Her parents was mixed race with white ancestry

@@deborahthomes3383 Why mention that "bs" about her parents were mixed race white ancestry as if that is something to be proud of ha ha.. There are also many white southerners who has mixed race BLACK ANCESTRY according to recent reports that range between 1% 0 27 % with the dichotomy racial dividing line starting at 28%, however, those whites don't go around acknowledging that part of their Black ancestry, and in fact they strongly DENY it.. I think that it is quite disrespectful to all LIGHT SKIN Black people whose both parents are simply light skin and give birth to beautiful ight skin Blacks who WHITE FOLKS WANT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THEIR BEAUTY, and ignorant Black people encourages that nonsense. In Louisiana many light skin men and women were encouraged to marry among themselves for may generations, and they don't have any knowledge about any white ancestry in their families. Many light skin Blacks like Lena Horne and even myself are usually more mixed looking than the so-call "Biracial" children who have one white race and a dark skin Black race person as their parents. Many Biracial people are brown skin with softer hair, while "UNMIXED" light skin Blacks look sort of Arabic and can have woolly hair with completely different facial features that looks 1000% times better than white folks who always want to claim them, same as they want to claim ancient Egyptians like Queen Nefertiti, and even claim that Ethiopians and Somalians are Caucasians. The Black race has many different phenotypes, and we all don't have to look like Chaka Zulu, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe for us to be Black.. Skin color is not the only phenotype that defines us as a Black race. 😊😊

Gorgeous due to her European phenotype? She afterall a multigeneration Mulata!

Not a gorgeous at all to me. She’s cute. I hate how this particular look on a woman is automatically considered gorgeous or beautiful anything else is not. And if you disagree you’re jealous. She is not gorgeous to me. But I’m interested in knowing what she’s stand for. ♥️

@@deborahthomes3383 I’m well aware of that.

Facts..I always thought that too,that Alicia Keys favor and should play Lena Horne..

If Alicia has the acting chops, I agree. She definitely looks like the great Lena Horne. Ms. Horne made me cry as Glenda! BEAUTIFUL performance! ❤️

I'd like them to keep looking.

NOPE!…Alicia Keys should DEFINITELY NOT play Lena Horne!

Facts 🙏🏼

when was that? 70s? maybe the 80s?

Haha, I loved what she said after giving that ray-sist man what for too! 💪🏾 As person labelled as blk, she’ll be undergoing all kinds of macro and micro prejudices. Her husband didn’t jump to her defence, because he is yt and at the end of the day, that’s where his true loyalty stands. Most blk interracial relationships aren’t based on genuine love (not even same race relationships!) and these are the times this truth raises its ugly head.

@@HeartBreakHigh oh. Is this also why bm don't protect bw? Her husband was Black at a point so what was his excuse? Why didn't it work out? Why couldn't he protect her from racism? A pos is a pos. Nothing to do with what you said. If a man is a man he will protect to the ends of the earth like he's supposed to

@@diwi5823 Well, that is ironic. I thought she was with a yt man at that point, she didn’t really have a blk husband, as in blk looking husband at any point did she? I’d have to rewatch the video to find that out. This is interesting because when I heard this situation, I thought in hat moment she was 100% a blk woman because she had to defend herself and nobody came to her aid, as far as we know. I thought the husband was yt and sticking to his side, but if he was blk then it’s just classic situation of a blk man not defending his blk woman, who isn’t really blk anyway 🤯. The complexity if everything! I think you’ll find that most people agree if a man is a man he will protect a woman and his children to the end of the earth. I agree, so I don’t know why you’d think I wouldn’t. People need to really stop responding emotionally! Or at least not lead with emotions!

And look at the preponderance of insecure Hair Hatted females we have in 2022. 🙄

They were I WANt their wardrobes!!

I’ve read that her skin would be made lighter or her pet would be cut out entirely for southern audiences. It was pretty crazy to see the original clips of Story Wheather vs what was shown for audiences in different southern states.

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 I just love how they say for "southern audiences" when they really mean for all white racists audiences in the country.

Exacto! Many ppl talk about her being fair and not really representing black women… but back in those days like my grandparents and great grandparents many of them looked like Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Eartha Kitt and Josephine Baker. Smooth skin and “ back in the day” hair. But politically savvy and strong resolute about the times❤️ Oh yes they married “other men” ….. but they never let their choice silence their “Voice”. Peace ❤️ 🇧🇿🇯🇲🇸🇷🇨🇼🇻🇪

@@tantig5923 i am not the type of person that claims racism... I never treated people different. I admire their unique look or anything that catches my attention. Being of different backgrounds myself i understand what you mean. I think it's beautiful in and of itself and we should embrace what we have been given.

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Me too Senorita Bonita and great comment. Thank you for sharing, sweetie. Love you much too! ❤️

"A little mixed"? Come on now.. Let's not do the Sydel routine. All of her was beautiful. We can be a few things at once. She was Native American as well as the other thing. Her ancestry was part of her story. Great job.. Just saying, the whole of her is integral.

That was also my very favorite song that Lena sang !! I had never been sure she had done that one, what a talented beauty she was !! 😀😀😃😃 Maybe Joan Crawford was right when she said hard times are good for people; it certainly just made Horne and Crawford stronger and more talented !!

Beautiful black women??????

@@pnklfeflx7332 yes beautiful black *WOMAN. It's obvious you cant type, but can you read?

@Muñeca Morena 🦋 looks like you can’t tell the difference bitch

She is not black !!!

She's from New York but her parents are definitely black just very light skinned I assume they're probably of mixed heritage themselves but Lena wasn't biracial as both her parents were black identifying

She was a gorgeous African American woman.

@@Model_Roe she wasn’t bi-racial because non of her parents were blk. She is from a long line of highly mixed with yt people. The blk in her lineage is so far back, it is practically a myth now.

@@HeartBreakHigh ? Disagree you can tell she has black in her I have seen plenty of black people with light skinned fine features just like her it's not uncommon but you're correct in that she wasn't biracial because you can Google her parents and they were both black just very light skinned probably mixed with other races but Lena said her parents were black identifying

@@Model_Roe Yeah, I know she has blk in her. I’m not saying she has no blk in her. I’m saying she is not blk and that the blk genetics in her bloodline is way back and the majority of her genetics in her and her bloodline is yt. The photo of her mum is wrong according to a few commenters, I’ll have to look up her parents, but I don’t understand she said they were identifying as blk. What is that? Under the one drop rule, they couldn’t identify as anything else, so 🤷🏽‍♀I keep it factual and not emotional. Two genetic blk parents means you are blk. Anything else is not.

Mariah the scientist looks more similar but less talented 🤷‍♀️my opinion

Wow, I always felt she reminded me of my grandma too

@@erykacane29 they don’t make women as classy anymore like the women from our grandmas age. You barely see grandmas like that nowadays

@@truthliesbeneath3134 so true!

@@truthliesbeneath3134 Facts. I watch re-runs of Sanford and Sons with my mom every night and I always admire how classy the women are in their dress, manners, and speech. My mom’s from the era portrayed in the show and she agrees that things are so incredibly different these days.

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 love that show and I still watch it. I put my husband on

This is what I came to say too!

The evil intuition of enslavement, as practiced in the USA & its states, reduced sentient human beings to chattel property. No enslaved person could consent to what was done to them. The sexual assaults also enriched the slavers because the offspring were born enslaved and owned by the perpetrators of sexual assault.

@@beautyaddict08 when Black - light skin people say they are part Indian\Native American-- No, part white from being r_ _ed by slave masters! DNA tests show 40% European for many!🌴🙏California.

Exactly...100

Maybe she said that to avoid the r word and possible demonization of the video.

.. And she had it coming at her from the other direction as well with colorism from the other side.. Not being "black enough".. Or "trying to pass" which she was accused of incessantly.

@@bcastrob9226 You are so right !! She experienced extreme prejudice from both sides of the aisle, I don't think I implied that enough, lot's of blacks accused her of trying to "pass" which she was never trying to do !! It's sad that such a beautiful, intelligent woman had to be put through so much hell. She had to deal with racism on one side and hateful jealousy on the other !! She was a very brave lady !! Being accused of trying to pass was probably the most ludicrous accusation, if she had tried to pass, it would've most likely detracted from her extreme beauty !!

When you look at both sides of her family they were pretty fair. I bet had dna testing been available she would have had a significant amount of european blood.

Her parents were mixed.

Don’t be delusional 😂

Both parents are mixed

@@rendallsofia1194 Thank you!

I believe Halle's role model was Dorothy Dandridge.

@@wendigo1919 Actually I read an interview that she was saying how much she admires Lena and how she changed her point of view about movies. She never mentioned Dorothy Dandridge

@@wendigo1919 💯💯💯💯💯

grandmother fantastically within, ever be@utiful indeed!

I highly suggest you read her books and watch her interviews. Same with Eartha Kitt because they keep it real with regards to what it was like being black in their times which si amazing to me because in those times it was highly discouraged for any black person to share their stories. Eartha actually got punished for telling the president what was really going on in the black community during a white house meal because it was seen as too politically controversial, but despite being banned from the White House she didn’t back down.

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 🌿 We need to know who the sitting president was at the White House when Eartha Kitt was banned. She was a lovely, strong, entertaining woman and said to be a favorite of Otto Preminger. He found her simply fascinating. I was so lucky to see her playing the Wicked Witch along with Mickey Rooney in a live performance of Wizard of Oz at the Fox Theatre in Detroit around 2000. What an absolute thrill❣️

For African American women yah I don’t know about that one?

Linda: I read Lena's autobigraphy - also later biographies, and definitely recall Lena referring to her mother's jealousy and saying that she once, as an adult, asked her mother if she ever really loved her - and the mother replied "no." Heartbreaking.

Lens was black not white

@@ThePhoenix3712 She didn't say she wasn't black, but that she was in Hollywood amongst jealous white women.

@@ThePhoenix3712 she was mixed race. The stupidity is unreal. She had 2 mixed race parents

She was not a little mixed…she was very mixed. Both parents were mixed

@@PsychicMedium4747 😂 I know🤣 what is wrong with calling mixed race people "mixed race"? why must they always be called black or a "tiny" bit mixed? I'm born in England, I find many American black people say theses statements.

You didn’t know she was black?

@@Thatricanrose81 Of course I knew she was black considering I am. Is that all you got from my comment?

​@@Thatricanrose81She didn't realise her mother was black, it would be fair to assume she was of mixed heritage due to her appearance, even if she didn't identify as that. If you tested her DNA she would have inherited a high amount of European and native American genetics. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being multi-racial. I am, and I resent people who write us off as passing, white or black. We are what we are.

Yes, that mom photo was of the actress Fredi Washington, not her mother, Edna.

I remember that too! It was a fantastic interview! She flirted with Ed Bradley a little bit and made him blush. They showed a clip of her singing "I'm a ripe juicy plum" and she explained to Ed how even as an older woman she wanted to sing about her vitality ;). Ed was star struck and didn't look ready for the interview to take that turn. He looked like a schoolboy with a crush on teacher! She was still so gorgeous. Poor Ed! He got teased about it later.

@@rhino5100 I so remember that Edith! You’re spot on -it was a flirty type session -but very sweet! Sad they are both gone now -thank you remembering that interview-she was such a beautiful lady, inside and out

The sky is purple.

That's the way it should be, but not the way it is!!!!!

You’re exactly right if people just stop giving it power, stop passing it down we can weed it out.

@@MayMay-el4wg A mixed race person is still Black. We’re all mixed with European, it’s what makes us African American. Some are mixed with more European DNA than others but we all have different, varying degrees or percentages of the two races. Either way, we were all brought up in the culture, with brown skin and discrimination so I don’t understand why some insist on division.

it's an issue on 'both sides' because of the prevalence by 'one' side! which are a shallow lot!

I totally agree 👍 👌

More like Meghan markle with Alicia's vocals.

Dee D Oh i see you caught it too. I just commented on the fact that it was Fredi Washington that was posted as Lena Horn's mother. I am so glad that someone else also caught the error as well.

viewed on numerous occasions

Was just about to post this. Fredi Washington was some kinda woman. I've loved Imitation of Life since I was 8 years old.

Yes- her mom was Edna Scottron. There’s a Lena Horne documentary in her own words that I think brings to light a few small corrections.

That's what I thought!

Classic movie Iv'e watched numerous times throughout my life, crying everytime

Huh? That was in the incorrect photo? I’ve just made a point that her mother looks yt! 😄. Back to the drawing board 😛.

Great eye. I thought that was Fredi.

Thank you for sharing. Hopefully she can edit her video and fix it.

What’s with her being overweight have to do with her beauty?

yeah I was about to say that too! its not her mother, that's Fredi Washington

@babytash: Right?! They were working overtime to try and play down her Beauty and skin tone. She was perfect as is🥰

Both parents are mixed. Not just light. Their lineage were clearly mixed and as they said owned slaves as well sooo. It isn’t just being light skinned.

Can we just stop this "see me as special because my parents look mixed" thing? Can we really just stop? We KNOW the intent of those statements. We KNOW why they are even stated. Just stop.

@@nopebye.777 light skin black people have black features. They do not look like and confused with white people. Also back then they used the 1 drop rule so you could be a whole white person calling themself black just because a ancient ancestor was black.

@@sadesexoticreptiles4948 GTFO of my inbox with your basic ahh response.

Beautiful! Sounds like a beautiful lady who was treated as such by her man. ❤️❤️ Too bad we don’t get much of this in today’s world smh.

Translation: I have a mixed woman directly in my family. Am I not special? And my not mixed grandpa loved that look because ...you know...mixed = feminine.

@@nopebye.777 nah. That’s all your projection onto a stranger on the internet. Therapy.

@@negativenancy4805 Therapy is a GOOD thing. I highly recommend. Maybe a therapist will help you with your identity crisis.

@@nopebye.777 you attached an entire narrative to a comment about a whole family of people you don’t know…but I’m the one with an identity crises. Identify you some business because this ain’t it, nutty buddy.

Many are! I didn’t raise you to try to be better than me, is the evil way some womens minds work! It is a tragedy how many mother daughter relationships are destroyed because of looks!

@@marymargaretblumhorst5359 mmh Hollywood is no good environment

Right smh that means she was raised right

It's not that uncommon.

Kimmie Horne?

Mines too

@@wilsondwight7817 hey twin!!

Hello 👋

So I need to top your story on famous folks, 😂. Muhammad Ali came to my HBCU college in Kentucky to see his high school friends, he was Cassis Clay at the time, we are the same age..his brother Rudy was with him. On campus he was driving a pink Cadillac, straight from the Olympics_ then into the small cafeteria, I was eating. They were so tall, brown smooth skin, beautiful men. I thought, no wonder he calls himself "pretty". Fast forward 45 years, my son recruits college football, calls me from Mohammed's daughter's house in Vegas, recruiting a son. From his first wife-Yolanda-the daughter is one of their twins.🥊\ 🌴California-retired😁