Lena Horne known favorite perfume – Guerlain Shalimar
Lena Horne was an American actress, dancer, singer and civil rights activist. She is best known for her enduring beauty, grace, trademark song, “Stormy Weather”, and for her portrayal movies like Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky.
She was the only child of Edna Luise Scottron, an actress, and Edwin Horne, a professional gambler. Her father abandoned the family, and due to her mother’s unstable career, she often found herself in the care of her grandparents.
- Born: June 30, 1917, New York City, New York
- Died: May 9, 2010, Manhattan, New York
- Birth Name: Lena Marie Calhoun
- Husbands: Louis Jordan Jones (1937-1944); Lennie Hayton (1947-1971)
- Children: Daughter, Gail Buckley; one son, Edwin Jones (died 1970).
- Height: 5’5″ (1.65 m)
- Net Worth: $30 million
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Humanitarian Causes: NAACP, National Urban League, National Council for Negro Women
- Quotes
- “Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
- “There’s a little hope for each generation.”
- Trivia
- Her voice has been featured in more than 40 albums.
- Was known as the highest paid African American woman.
- Her paternal grandfather, Edwin Fletcher Horne, was a politician, education and newspaper publisher.
- Her maternal grandfather, Samuel R. Scottron, was an inventor and manufacturer. He graduated from The Cooper Union with a degree in engineering, and held five patents, including an invention for curtain rods.