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One of her last albums, An Evening with Lena Horne, earned her a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1995.

Lena Horne later wrote that the movie producers did not make her into a servant, but they did not make her into anything else either.

Lena Horne said that she was able to make movies because she was the kind of black person that white people could accept.

Horne returned to Pittsburgh, where she temporarily separated from her husband, then reconciled with him.

One of Horne's numbers was "You're So Indifferent" written by Sammy Fain and Mitchell Parish a song she would keep in her repertoire.

Miss Horne's producers once complained that she opened her mouth too wide to sing. They meant it was a Negro thing.

Although blues were her specialty, Lena Horne's husky, contralto voice was equally at home with a variety of styles.

In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

Money was tight in those Depression years, and Horne's mother obtained an audition for her at the Cotton Club through a friend.

BARBARA KLEIN: Lena Horne performed in a strong and expressive way.

Van Horne is now offering to teach other companies everything he knows about building high-tech factories.

"I think maybe I wasn't sexy enough, " the still sensuous Horne told Carson, with a sarcasm so deft, it could pass for airy banter.

In nineteen eighty-one she returned to Broadway in New York with the show "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. "

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

Eventually, Horne managed to get herself "cleared" from the blacklist, and media opportunities in the US opened up again.

The final sendoff for Horne, who died May 9 at the age of 92, was attended by celebrities, dignitaries and fans.

That September, NBC broadcast her first US-originated television special, Monsanto Presents Lena Horne .

In New York City, a supposedly more sophisticated place, Horne faced similar restrictions.

Horne was generally only offered the role of a nightclub singer.

In the "real" movies of the time, as Horne noted on The Tonight Show, blacks were portrayed "as jungle people or in servitude. "

Horne was introduced to Louis Jordan Jones, a Pittsburgh political operative, by her father.

"Executive thinking is particularly impaired by sleep loss, " Horne says.

But will learning to baby sign help comedian Alex Horne and young Tom have their first father-and-son chat?

They hired versatile musician Keith Horne as a bass player and entered the studio in 2003.

Horne has his doubts about such treatment, citing a possible placebo effect.

That was the voice of Horne the entertainer.

But to everyone else Ms Horne, before her beauty was even considered, was black.

In 1981, Lena Horne introduced her one-woman show on Broadway in New York City, Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music.

About 25 years later Horne was asked to give two concerts at Camp Robinson in Alabama, one to white servicemen, the second to black GIs.

Half a century after Donald Horne named Australia The Lucky Country.

BARBARA KLEIN: That was Lena Horne singing her most famous song, "Stormy Weather. "

When her film work eased up, however, Horne had other activities to keep her busy.

In 1888, under the direction of William Cornelius Van Horne, the 250-room Banff Springs Hotel was completed.

Horne parted ways with RCA in 1946 and signed to the tiny Black & White Records label, for which she recorded that fall.

In this way, Horne notes, a single pigeon could fly in 40, 000 dispatches, equivalent to the contents of a substantial book.

Lena Horne was presented the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1989.

Personal friends such as Marjorie Andrews, who was introduced to Horne thirty years ago through family relations, were also in attendance.

My pastor, Rex Horne, suggested that I do it, and put together the invitation list.

So when Lena Horne was born there in 1917, she automatically became a U. S. citizen.

Horne herself was a pivotal figure in the changing attitudes about race in the 20th century;