Lena Mary Calhoun Horne Net Worth
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne Net Worth is
$700,000
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the 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 numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year 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 numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. | Full Name | Lena Horne |
| Date Of Birth | June 30, 1917 |
| Died | 2010-05-09 |
| Place Of Birth | Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Height | 1.66 m |
| Profession | Soundtrack, Actress |
| Education | Girls' High School, Boys and Girls High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Lennie Hayton |
| Children | Gail Buckley, Terry Jones |
| Parents | Edna Louise Scottron, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne, Jr. |
| Awards | Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Special Tony Award, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist, New Yor... |
| Nominations | Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, NME Award for Favourite US Female Singer |
| Movies | Stormy Weather, Cabin in the Sky, The Wiz, The Duke Is Tops, Death of a Gunfighter, Till the Clouds Roll By, Words and Music, Panama Hattie, Ziegfeld Follies, Broadway Rhythm, Meet Me in Las Vegas, I Dood It, Thousands Cheer, That's Entertainment! III, Two Girls and a Sailor, Boogie-Woogie Dream, Du... |
| TV Shows | An Evening with Lena Horne, Brown Sugar, Harry and Lena |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | I never considered myself a movie star. Mostly, I just sang songs in other people's movies. |
| 2 | [on MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer] He was the most clever, ruthless, smart character that you would never want to know. All those guys were--Harry Cohn [Columbia Pictures chief] . . . Jack L. Warner [Warner Bros. chief]--believe me, they weren't dumb. They were the czars of the industry--and they had no mercy. |
| 3 | I had this sort of greedy agent who made me go to Hollywood in the hope that I'd be in movies. |
| 4 | [on Myrna Loy] A great star and a woman of accomplishment who is angry about all the right things. |
| 5 | My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman, I'm not alone, I'm free. I say I'm free because I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else. |
| 6 | [on love] Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can. |
| 7 | In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way. |
| 8 | A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it. |
| 9 | Always be smarter than the people who hire you. |
| 10 | It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. |
| 11 | You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. |
| 12 | in Brian Lanker's book "I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America", New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986)] My own people didn't see me as a performer because they were busy trying to make a living and feed themselves. Until I got to café society in the '40s, I didn't even have a black audience and then it was mixed. I was always battling the system to try to get to be with my people. Finally, I wouldn't work for places that kept us out . . . it was a damn fight everywhere I was, every place I worked, in New York, in Hollywood, all over the world. |
| 13 | I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Became pregnant by her 2nd husband Lennie Hayton but suffered a miscarriage whilst in Paris in July 1950. |
| 2 | Director Vincente Minnelli stated that Horne's cameo music appearances in other people's movies were designed to be easily edited out when they played in Southern theaters. According to Minelli, "This was, of course, contemptible". |
| 3 | She moved into cabaret performances in some part because her name had appeared in "Red Channels", a publication that circulated in the entertainment industry during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era that listed names of performers it considered "subversives". Her activities in the civil rights movement, beginning in the 1940s, and her longtime friendship with former Communist actor/singer Paul Robeson were also used against her. |
| 4 | She was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on November 26, 2012. |
| 5 | She was a lifelong liberal Democrat who was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. She worked with Eleanor Roosevelt on anti-lynching laws and during the John F. Kennedy administration she was a frequent guest at the White House. |
| 6 | Her favorite actor was John Garfield. |
| 7 | Received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1989. |
| 8 | Received an honorary doctorate from Howard University in 1980. |
| 9 | Was born on the same day, and same place (Brooklyn, New York) as actress Susan Hayward. |
| 10 | Made her last public appearance in 1999. |
| 11 | She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6282 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Motion Pictures at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. |
| 12 | Children from first marriage to Louis Jones: Gail Jones (b. 1938), aka Gail Lumet Buckley, and Terry Jones (b. 1939). |
| 13 | Her father's name was Edwin F. Horne. Her mother was an actress, Edna Louise Calhoun Scottron. |
| 14 | Leslie Uggams is scheduled to portray her in a musical production "Stormy Weather" at the Pasadena Playhouse (California) starting January 2009. |
| 15 | In Charles Whiting's book "The Long March on Rome", he reports that she refused to appear before racially segregated United States Army audiences in World War II Italy--since the army was officially segregated, the policy was to have one show solely for white troops and another show solely for black troops. Horne insisted on performing for mixed audiences, and since the United States Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she wound up putting on a show for a mixed audience of black American soldiers and white German POWs. |
| 16 | Grandmother of Jenny Lumet and Amy Lumet. |
| 17 | Received a Special Tony Award in 1982 for "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music". She had previously been nominated for Broadway's 1958 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Jamaica". |
| 18 | She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. |
| 19 | She had a weakness for Godiva chocolate. |
| 20 | Ranked #62 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock N Roll. |
| 21 | Sought the lead role in the controversial film Pinky (1949), about a black girl who passes for white. 20th Century-Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck decided to take the safe road and choose a white star who had box-office appeal and picked Jeanne Crain. "Pinky", which was a slang term for a light-skinned black, won Crain her only Oscar nomination. |
| 22 | According to her autobiography, she photographed so light in her initial screen tests that MGM was afraid people would mistake her for a white woman, so they had makeup legend Max Factor create a make-up line for her called "Dark Egyptian", so she could appear as a "Negro" onscreen. Ironically, Hedy Lamarr used this same makeup in White Cargo (1942) when she played a half-caste African native. |
| 23 | She was branded a "Communist sympathizer" by many right-wing conservatives because of her association with Paul Robeson and her progressive political beliefs (which led her to be blacklisted in the 1950s). |
| 24 | Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1991. |
| 25 | Former mother-in-law of director Sidney Lumet. Lumet was married to Horne's daughter Gail Jones (Gail Lumet Buckley). |
| 26 | Lived in Manhattan's fabled West Side apartment building, the Apthorp, whose residents include Rosie O'Donnell, Conan O'Brien, Steve Kroft, Cyndi Lauper and Kate Nelligan. |
| 27 | She was the mother of journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley, whose articles have appeared in Vogue Magazine (USA) and The Los Angeles Times (CA, USA); Buckley has researched and authored two books "The Hornes: An American Family" (New American Library, 1986) and "American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm" (Random House, 2001). |
| 28 | Lost her father, husband and son in one year. |
| 29 | Her signature song is "Stormy Weather". |
| 30 | While at MGM, her appearances in movies were shot so that they could be cut easily from the film. This was because MGM feared audiences of the day--but especially in the South--would not accept a beautiful black woman in romantic, non-menial roles. Many in the business believed that this was the main reason she lost out on playing the mulatto "Julie" in MGM's remake of Show Boat (1951). Ironically, the role was played by one of Lena's close off-screen friends, Ava Gardner, who practiced for it by singing to Horne's recordings of the songs, and Lena had already appeared in the "Show Boat" segment of Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), in which she appeared as "Julie" singing "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (which was, as all her MGM appearances, shot in such a way that it could be easily edited out of the film). Another irony is that she had been invited by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II themselves to play "Julie" in the 1946 Broadway revival of "Show Boat", but had had to refuse because MGM would not release her from her contract. |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darker Than You Think | performer: "I'd Know you Anywhere", "Stormy Weather" announced | ||
| American Dad! | 2015 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| American Horror Story | 2011 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Homeland | 2011 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Michael Feinstein's American Songbook | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me | 2009 | TV Movie documentary performer: "One for My Baby and One More for the Road", "Day In - Day Out" | |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression | 2009 | Video documentary performer: "I Know You Remember" - uncredited | |
| A Life in Words and Music | 2007 | Video short "The Lady Is a Tramp" | |
| Take the Lead | 2006 | performer: "I Got Rhythm Take the Lead Remix", "I Got Rhythm" | |
| Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | 2004 | performer: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" | |
| Miss Match | 2003 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Sinatra: The Classic Duets | 2002 | TV Movie documentary performer: "One for My Baby and One More for the Road" - uncredited | |
| Six Feet Under | 2002 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The Family Man | 2000 | performer: "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" | |
| Déjà Vu | 1997 | performer: "Where Or When" | |
| Chicago Cab | 1997 | performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | |
| Lolita | 1997 | performer: "Stormy Weather" | |
| That's Entertainment! III | 1994 | Documentary performer: "Where or When" 1937, "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "Ain't It the Truth" 1942, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 1927 - uncredited | |
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | performer: "A Fine Romance" | |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1992 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | 1990 | performer: "Stormy Weather" | |
| Entertaining the Troops | 1988 | Documentary performer: "The Man I Love" | |
| Beyond Therapy | 1987 | performer: "Someone To Watch Over Me" | |
| DTV: Golden Oldies | 1984 | Video performer: "Stormy Weather" | |
| The 35th Annual Tony Awards | 1981 | TV Special performer: "If You Believe" | |
| Sesame Street | 1980 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Wiz | 1978 | performer: "Tornado/Glinda's Theme", "If You Believe In Yourself Reprise" | |
| The Muppet Show | 1976 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp" 1937 - uncredited | |
| That's Entertainment! | 1974 | performer: "Honeysuckle Rose" 1929 - uncredited | |
| Death of a Gunfighter | 1969 | performer: "SWEET APPLE WINE" | |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1967 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1967 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Now | 1965 | Documentary short performer: "Now" | |
| The Twentieth Century | 1964 | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| At This Very Moment | 1962 | TV Special performer: "From This Moment On" | |
| The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: To the Ladies | 1960 | TV Special performer: "Ring the Bell", "But Beautiful", "From This Moment On", "As Long As I Live", "One for My Baby", "Stormy Weather", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" - uncredited | |
| Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1960 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | performer: "If You Can Dream" | |
| MGM Parade | 1955 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Duchess of Idaho | 1950 | performer: "Baby Come Out of the Clouds" | |
| Words and Music | 1948 | performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Where or When" | |
| Till the Clouds Roll By | 1946 | performer: "Show Boat", "Why Was I Born?" uncredited | |
| Studio Visit | 1946 | Short performer: "Ain't It the Truth" - uncredited | |
| Ziegfeld Follies | 1945 | performer: "Love" | |
| Boogie-Woogie Dream | 1944 | Short performer: "Unlucky Woman" | |
| Two Girls and a Sailor | 1944 | performer: "Paper Doll" 1915 - uncredited | |
| Broadway Rhythm | 1944 | performer: "Brazilian Boogie", "Somebody Loves Me" | |
| Swing Fever | 1943 | performer: "You're So Indifferent" | |
| Thousands Cheer | 1943 | performer: "Honeysuckle Rose" - uncredited | |
| I Dood It | 1943 | performer: "Jericho" 1919 | |
| Stormy Weather | 1943 | performer: "There's No Two Ways About Love" 1943, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" 1897, "De Camptown Races" 1849, "Diga Diga Doo" 1928, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" 1928, "Stormy Weather" 1933 - uncredited | |
| Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | performer: "Life Is Full of Consequence" 1943, "Honey in the Honeycomb" 1940 uncredited | |
| Panama Hattie | 1942 | performer: "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "The Sping" 1942 uncredited | |
| The Duke Is Tops | 1938 | performer: "I Know You Remember", "Don't Let Our Love Song Turn Into a Blues" - uncredited |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Different World | 1993 | TV Series | Lena Horne |
| The Cosby Show | 1985 | TV Series | Lena Horne |
| The Wiz | 1978 | Glinda the Good | |
| Sanford and Son | 1973 | TV Series | Lena Horne |
| Death of a Gunfighter | 1969 | Claire Quintana | |
| Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | Lena Horne | |
| Duchess of Idaho | 1950 | Lena Horne | |
| Words and Music | 1948 | Lena Horne | |
| Till the Clouds Roll By | 1946 | Julie LaVerne (segment "Show Boat") / Lena Horne | |
| Swingtime Jamboree | 1946 | ||
| Ziegfeld Follies | 1945 | Lena Horne ('Love') | |
| Two Girls and a Sailor | 1944 | Specialty | |
| Broadway Rhythm | 1944 | Fernway de la Fer | |
| Swing Fever | 1943 | Lena Horne | |
| Thousands Cheer | 1943 | Lena Horne | |
| I Dood It | 1943 | Lena Horne | |
| Stormy Weather | 1943 | Selina Rogers | |
| Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Georgia Brown | |
| Panama Hattie | 1942 | Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited) | |
| The Duke Is Tops | 1938 | Ethel Andrews | |
| Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party | 1935 | Short | Cotton Club Dancer (uncredited) |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19th Annual Trumpet Awards | 2011 | TV Special in memory of |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The All-Star Christmas Show | 1958 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1958 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
| What's My Line? | 1953-1958 | TV Series | Herself - Mystery Guest |
| The Heart of Show Business | 1957 | Short | Herself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1948-1957 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Vocalist |
| Val Parnell's Startime | 1956 | TV Series | Herself |
| Music 55 | 1955 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 | 1955 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The 26th Annual Academy Awards | 1954 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member (New York) |
| Your Show of Shows | 1951-1953 | TV Series | Herself - Guest Performer |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1951 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
| Studio Visit | 1946 | Short | Herself (uncredited) |
| Boogie-Woogie Dream | 1944 | Short | Herself |
| That's Entertainment!: The Masters Behind the Musicals | 2004 | Video documentary short | Herself |
| Then I'll Be Free to Travel Home | 2001 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| American Masters | 1996-1999 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show | 1997-1998 | TV Series | Herself |
| That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen | 1994 | Video documentary | Herself |
| An Evening with Lena Horne | 1994 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Sinatra Duets | 1994 | TV Special | Herself |
| That's Entertainment! III | 1994 | Documentary | Herself - Co-Host / Narrator |
| The 36th Annual Grammy Awards | 1994 | TV Special | Herself |
| A Century of Women | 1994 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| 1993 Essence Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Herself - Honoree |
| Aretha Franklin: Duets | 1993 | TV Special | Herself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor | 1993 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| The 65th Annual Academy Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Original Song |
| Reading Rainbow | 1991 | TV Series | Herself |
| Wolf Trap Presents Victor Borge: An 80th Birthday Celebration | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs | 1989 | Documentary | Herself |
| Sesame Street | 1973-1989 | TV Series | Herself |
| Ebony/Jet Showcase | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| CBS This Morning | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening | 1987 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The 8th Annual Black Achievement Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Herself |
| The CBS Morning News | 1986 | TV Series | Herself |
| Brown Sugar | 1986 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Learning About Letters | 1986 | Video short | Herself |
| Night of 100 Stars II | 1985 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1984 | TV Movie | Herself - Honoree |
| Great Performances | 1984 | TV Series | Herself |
| Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | 1984 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The 37th Annual Tony Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Host |
| The 25th Annual Grammy Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Herself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1965-1982 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest |
| Save the Cable Cars Telethon | 1982 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The 36th Annual Tony Awards | 1982 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Musical |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1982 | TV Special | Herself |
| People of the Year | 1982 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Tomorrow Coast to Coast | 1981 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1981 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 35th Annual Tony Awards | 1981 | TV Special | Herself - Performer & Winner: Special Award |
| Song by Song | 1979 | TV Series | Herself - Music Performer |
| Good Morning America | 1978 | TV Series | Herself |
| America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music | 1976 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Muppet Show | 1976 | TV Series | Herself - Special Guest Star |
| Flip | 1970-1974 | TV Series | Herself |
| Tony & Lena | 1973 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Bruce Forsyth Show | 1973 | TV Series | Herself |
| Keep U.S. Beautiful | 1973 | TV Special | Herself |
| Film Night | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Kraft Music Hall | 1969-1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| Harry and Lena | 1970 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Engelbert Humperdinck Show | 1970 | TV Series | Herself |
| Sandler and Young's Kraft Music Hall | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
| Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne | 1969 | TV Movie | Herself - Host |
| Laugh-In | 1968-1969 | TV Series | Herself |
| The London Palladium Show | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1967-1969 | TV Series | Herself |
| Gala de l'Unicef | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| Stars for Israel | 1967 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Andy Williams Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Eamonn Andrews Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
| Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1958-1966 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
| Today | 1965 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | 1965 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
| Now | 1965 | Documentary short | Herself (voice) |
| The Royal Variety Performance 1964 | 1964 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Lena | 1964 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Freedom Spectacular | 1964 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Twentieth Century | 1964 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The Judy Garland Show | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Jack Paar Program | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
| Password All-Stars | 1963 | TV Series | Herself - Celebrity Contestant |
| At This Very Moment | 1962 | TV Special | Herself |
| The Milton Berle Spectacular | 1962 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1961 | TV Series | Herself |
| Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium | 1955-1961 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Top of the Bill |
| The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: To the Ladies | 1960 | TV Special | Herself - Singer |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By | 2015 | TV Movie | |
| Sinatra: All or Nothing at All | 2015 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Spotlight on Broadway | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
| Strange Frame: Love & Sax | 2012 | Ethel Andrews (uncredited) | |
| The 83rd Annual Academy Awards | 2011 | TV Special | Herself - Special Memorial Tribute |
| The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards | 2011 | TV Special | Herself - In Memoriam |
| Michael Feinstein's American Songbook | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards | 2010 | TV Special | Herself - Memorial Tribute |
| Cinema 3 | 2010 | TV Series | |
| Democracy Now! | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
| Breakfast | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
| Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| A Life in Words and Music | 2007 | Video short | Herself |
| Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman | 2007 | Documentary | Herself |
| 60 Minutes | 2003-2006 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Singer |
| War Stories with Oliver North | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Andy Williams: My Favorite Duets | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | 2004 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Great Performances | 1985-2003 | TV Series | Herself |
| Sinatra: The Classic Duets | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| It's Black Entertainment | 2002 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| The Nightclub Years | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen | 1999 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Classified X | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | 1994 | TV Special | Herself |
| One on One: Classic Television Interviews | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| American Justice: Target - Mafia | 1993 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1992 | TV Series | Herself |
| 60 Minutes: The Entertainers | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| That's Black Entertainment | 1990 | Documentary | Herself |
| American Masters | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Entertaining the Troops | 1988 | Documentary | Herself |
| Muppet Video: Muppet Moments | 1985 | Video | Herself |
| DTV: Golden Oldies | 1984 | Video | Herself |
| Sesame Street | 1980 | TV Series | Herself |
| Best of the Dean Martin Show | 1979 | TV Movie | Herself |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary | Clip from 'Words and Music' |
| Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals | 1974 | TV Movie | Herself |
| That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Herself - at Banquet / Clip from 'Thousands Cheer' | |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| MGM Parade | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Singer |
| Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership | 1949 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| Mantan Messes Up | 1946 | Herself | |
| Harlem Hotshots | 1945 | Short | Herself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Legacy Award | African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) | ||
| 2010 | Acting and Activism Award | Women Film Critics Circle Awards | "As an anti-racist activist, she refused to appear before racially segregated US Army audiences in ... More | |
| 1982 | Hall of Fame | Image Awards | ||
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6282 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Recording | On 8 February 1960. At 6250 Hollywood Blvd. |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program | Great Performances (1971) |
| 1984 | ACE | CableACE Awards | Actress in a Comedy or Music Program | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1984) |
| 1971 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Variety and Popular Music | Harry and Lena (1970) |
Known for movies
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as Herself - Co-Host / Narrator
The Family Man (2000)
as Soundtrack
Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944)
as Herself
An Evening with Lena Horne (1994)
as Herself