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Lena Horne performing in the lounge of the Savoy-Plaza Hotel, New York, 1942.

Hazel Scott and Lena Horne c. 1940s

Lena Horne, 1942

Lena Horne in Till The Clouds Roll By (1946)

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Lena Horne in Stormy Weather, 1943.

Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, September 15, 1941

Lena Horne at the Stanley Theatre, 1944

Lena Horne c. 1947

Lena Horne singing in Paris, December 1947. Photo by Yale Joel

Singer and actress Lena Horne in a candid image taken on 5th Avenue in NYC, c. 1940

Lena Horne c. 1940’s

Singer and actress Lena Horne c. 1940’s

Lena Horne c. 1940’s

Lena Horne in a still for Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Lena Horne took on one of her few acting roles as the temptress Georgia Brown in Cabin in the Sky and it proved to be the ideal showcase for her musical talents and natural beauty. Minnelli originally intended to introduce Horne’s sexy character in a bubble bath scene but the censors refused to let him film it. Later, it appeared in a 1946 Pete Smith short subject entitled Studio Visit. As Horne later said in the documentary That’s Entertainment! III in which the excised performance was also featured, it was felt that to show a black woman singing in a bath went beyond the bounds of moral decency in 1943.