[78-L] Lena Horne

[Cary Ginell]

No. This made her more acceptable to BLACK audiences. Lighter skin was something African Americans aspired to - check out all of the Chicago Defender cosmetic ads for how to lighten one's skin tones. White audiences didn't want ANY black performers in movies, or at least the exhibitors didn't want them. Horne's performances were isolated from others in her pictures so that exhibitors in the South could conveniently cut them out when showing the picture. 

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:12:27 +0100
> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lena Horne
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
> > I saw her in the late 70s at the Royal York in Toronto. Sold out, and they had to add extra tables. She was very edgy and sarcastic and she obviously hated her life at that point.
> 
> > dl
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> I can't think of anything that she was famous for achieving, much like 
> Sammy Davis Jr. I've always had the feeling that was put in all-black 
> films because her light skin tones would make her more acceptable to 
> white audiences.
> 
> Julian Vein
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