Word: lena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Guest: Lena Home...
This time Esther flits flirtatiously between a Sun Valley bandleader (Van Johnson), whom she really loves, and a millionaire playboy (John Lund). Johnson is made to work overtime as a singer and dancer, and there are specialty numbers by Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell and Connie Haines, plus an unbilled appearance by Red Skelton. By the time the last monumentally tasteless water pageant has ebbed away, it is hard to tell Sun Valley from the same...
...Little Esther" Jones is only 14; but she is a big girl (137 lbs.) with a big voice and a following that may set other coffee-colored coloraturas such as Lena Home and Dinah Washington looking over their shoulders. One of Little Esther's records, Double Crossing Blues, has been among the ten bestselling "race" records for 22 weeks; two others, Cupid's Boogie and Mistrustin' Blues, have been up in the big time more than a month...
Marriage Revealed. Lena Horne, 32, sultry-voiced café au lait nightclub and cinema songstress (Words and Music); and Lennie Hayton, 42, onetime M-G-M music director; both for the second time; in Paris, in December...
There were a few drawbacks. The armory was so big that the music and entertainment (Singers Phil Regan and Lena Home, Dancers Sally & Tony DeMarco) might have been off in Kalamazoo. It was all but impossible to ogle the dignitaries at the head table. Hundreds of Government executives were forced to parade up & down in front of it so their bosses could see that they had not shirked their political duty by staying home and saving the admission charge...