Lena Horne was a groundbreaking singer, actress, and civil rights activist who starred in the musical Stormy Weather and became the first Black woman to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio. Despite this achievement, racism severely shaped her career. She was often filmed in separate scenes so that theaters in the segregated South could easily cut her out, and she was strictly forbidden from having romantic scenes with white actors. “I was a butterfly pinned to a column,” she

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'' Stormy Weather '' - Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) - 1943 "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford. Also 1933, for the first time in history the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities. The revue