Lena Horne

...network, and every Hollywood studio, in the US. Among the lepers are Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Artie Shaw, and Orson Welles. They are notable among the rest for not having had their...

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...to charm audiences across the world. Actor-director Orson Welles once called Kitt "the most exciting woman alive" and, along with Lena Horne, she was one of the first African-American sex symbols. Kitt picked up a string of awards during...

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Orson Welles famously proclaimed her the most exciting woman alive in the early 50s, apparently just after that excitement prompted him to bite her onstage during a performance of Time Runs, an adaptation of Faust in which Ms. Kitt played...

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...South. Saddled as a child by a self doubt that would never quite leave her, Horne rose among the ranks of African-American artists during the height of Jim Crow America, paving the way for Halle Berry 40 years later. Looming large...

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...in the forties and fifties, powerful, self-obsessed lovers ranging from Joe Louis to Orson Welles-that rubbing our faces in her anger even as she stooped to pick up the coins her audience threw at her would later become part of her...

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