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Lena Horne / James Haskins.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.H65 H4 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horne, Lena.
- HORNE, LENA CALHOUN.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- HORNE, LENA CALHOUN.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Coward-McCann, [1983]
- Summary:
- Details Horne's half-century career and describes her hard life as a child, her first appearance at Harlem's Cotton Club, her problems with the film industry and the political blacklist, and the strength and spirit that brought her success.
- Contents:
- Well-born in Brooklyn
- Life on the road
- Lena goes to work
- Teenage bride
- Back in show business
- On her own
- Lena moves to Hollywood
- Battling Hollywood prejudice
- Lena and Lennie marry
- Lena on Broadway
- Civil rights activist
- Tragedy and renewal
- Lena Horne : legend.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1984
- ISBN:
- 0698205863
- 9780698205864
- OCLC:
- 9828114
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