LENA HORNE - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 55926
Sale Price $270.00
Reg. $300.00
LENA HORNE
Small b/w photograph 4x5¾ b/w photograph of Tony and Grammy-winning
singer Lena Horne sitting in an off-the-shoulder gown, signed "Sincerely".
Horne was the first black American woman to sign a long-term contract with a
major movie studio.
Inscribed photograph signed "Jennifer/Most sincerely/Lena Horne"
in blue ink. Pencil notations on verso in unknown hand. B/w, 4x5¾
overall, 3¾x5¼ image, one surface, printed on cardstock. Sultry American jazz
singer and actress Horne (1917-2010) began performing at age six and left
school at 16 to support her sick mother. She began singing at Harlem's Cotton
Club in 1933, where Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington took her under their wings.
She later performed with Noble Sissle's Orchestra and Teddy Wilson's big band.
Horne won critical acclaim for her performance in Stormy Weather
(1943) and for singing the movie's title song. Although she was
the first black American woman to sign a long-term movie contract with a
major studio (MGM), her films were shot so that her scenes could be cut out
before being shown in the South. Horne placed a single, Love Me or Leave
Me, in the Billboard Top 20 in 1955 and won two Grammy Awards
(1981 for her album Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and 1995 for
her album An Evening with Lena Horne) and was nominated for a Tony in
1958 for her performance in Jamaica (1957-1959). Horne also won a
special Tony in 1981 for her one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her
Music. Lightly soiled. Parts of signature have low contrast but are
legible. Otherwise in fine condition.
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