Lena Horne Died at age 92 | Lena Horne Biography

An American Actress Lena Horne was died on May 9, 2010, less than two months before her 93rd birthday, at New York–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She was an American singer, actress and dancer. She joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in many movies, and more importance parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather.

In March 1980, Horne starred in a one woman show, "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music", which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway, and earned her many awards. In January 1937 married Louis Jordan Jones, They had a daughter, Gail and a son, Edwin Jones (1940-1970), who died from kidney disease. They separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage with Lennie Hayton, a Jewish American and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced; he died in 1971.

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