Word: scotchron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daughter of a Negro actress named Edna Scotchron, 25-year-old Lena Horne was graduated from Brooklyn Girls' High School into a job as a chorus girl in an Ethel Waters show at Manhattan's Cotton Club. She was put in big time by a spell at Hollywood's Little Troc cabaret. Her first film appearance, a sequence in Panama Hattie, proved the high point of a dull show. She continued as Georgia Brown in the cinema version of Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, and is scheduled for M.G.M.'s Meet the People...
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