OldHollywoodBookClub: 'Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne' looks back at the life of the screen icon and civil rights activist, who would've turned 103 this week
Harry Belafonte
Horne’s mother, Edna—a failed actress who was extremely jealous of her increasingly famous daughter—descended on L.A. for a different purpose. She wanted a career like Lena’s—or else. “If Lena didn’t cooperate, she would sell the press a story about a selfish girl who’d climbed to stardom on her mother’s shoulders, then tossed her aside,” Gavin writes.
A year later, during a fraught recording session of “Stormy Weather,” Horne found herself unable to tap into the angsty emotion of the song. She found it after band leader Cab Calloway leaned over and whispered two words in her ear: “Ethel Waters.”In 1960, Horne and her second husband, Lennie Hayton, went to dinner at the Luau in Beverly Hills, a kitschy hot spot owned by Lana Turner’s ex-husband, Stephen Crane. Their evening was shattered by a drunk engineer named Harvey St.
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