Lena Horne - Black Hollywood Entertainment

Here's a great number featuring Lena Horne, but it also features many beautiful unsung black women of Hollywood of the 40's, that have been hugely overlooked.

The women in the halter tops and red shorts from left to right are Kathleen Hartsfield, who also was in Stormy Weather as the hat check girl and in Cabin In The Sky as a dancer, next is Juliette Ball who was in many Hollywood movies, including Stormy Weather and Cabin In The Sky, she was a stand-in for Lena Horne and a good friend of Dorothy Dandridge. She also was a model who appeared in many European magazines. She also was an activist for blacks. I'm unsure of the beautiful lady on the right of Lena Horne. The last lady is Maggie Mae Hathaway, a great lady who did so much for blacks, she along with Juliette help form the NAACP Image Awards, and she helped integrate blacks in golfing. She also was in many films, and a singer and dancer. Also in the number is Louise Franklin, who been in over 30 films, she was in films from the 1930s to the 1950s, her most significant films were Citizen Kane, Stormy Weather, and Cabin In The Sky. She was a wonderful dancer and a pretty lady who was one of the first women on the cover of Jet magazine. Artie Young is also in this number, she was a popular dancer in the 30's and 40's. She was married to legendary dancer Leonard Reed. She also played the girlfriend to Herb Jeffries in the first black cowboy movies. Marie Bryant, legendary dancer and choreographer is also in this number.

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• Lena
• Horne
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• Dandridge
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• Hollywood
• Boogie
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• Black
• Beauty
• 1930s
• 1930's
• 30s
• 30's
• 1940's
• 1940s
• 40's
• 40s

[sierria64]

LENA... BOY SHE HAD THAT SEXA PEAL... WORK IT LENA

[DezignerGirlie]

Thank you so much for finding and posting this! Juliette Ball was my aunt and I thought I had seen most footage with her in it, but had not seen this. If I had seen this just a little over a year ago she could have named the others you don't have the names for. Yes, so many unsung black entertainers, thank you for helping to keep them alive!

[TheAdelaidehall]

Thank you for posting this and identifying some of the chorus. I love watching Lena in this because she is clearly having fun and enjoying herself. Later on, at her own admission, she built a wall of ice around herself, and adopted a somewhat detached and aloof stage/screen persona. In this MGM musical number she really sheds her inhibitions and lets herself go! What a wonderful lady/artiste.

[jewelsheartsmakeup]

It looked like she was having fun!

[carmenjones411]

Werk it Lena!

[calispartan]

One of the few roles she did during her time in Hollywood where her character actually had a name. Shame the role couldn't have been integrated in the story.

[VAUGHN1943]

Happy 94th Birthday Lena Horne

[RememberTheTime09]

@RememberTheTime09 Correction 1944.

[RememberTheTime09]

@eartha78 Broadway Rhythm (1943)

[eartha78]

amazing thank you so much - and thanks for identifying to other women too! What fim is the number from?