Lena Horne - DARK Hollywood secrets, Hypergamy & a jealous mother!

[@KarineAlourde]

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” -Lena Horne

[@mreclectic700]

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[@TheQuietStorm630]

I love Lena she was a class act all the way.❤❤❤

[@danilaroche1156]

My dad knew her. She hired him to do a mural of her. My dad was a famous artist. He spoke well of her.

[@danavixen6274]

Who else is moved to tears when she sings Believe in Yourself as Glenda the Good Witch in The Wiz? 😢 Rest in paradise, beautiful pioneer Lena Horne. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️🖤

[@beautifulsoultress3078]

I Always do 🥹 she was singing to all the black and brown children and whoever else it resonated with.

[@jalycac5206]

Every time I see it I tear up. 😂😢

[@GwendolynPorter-w6c]

I do! I have the Wiz album and it came with a booklet of the words of the songs from the movie.

[@meshajefferson9245]

Me!!! Every time! It’s one of my favorite movies!! ❤

[@heylaydi6927]

Me 🙋🏾‍♀️ I absolutely love that movie and I get teary eyed during her scene

[@shereewhite4828]

Mrs. Lena Horne was the epitome of beauty, brains, style, class, and eloquence. Rest in Paradise, beautiful queen.🙏🏽🖤

[@wildwaning9427]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@mikedok1]

I always loved 🥰 Miss Lena Horne. I didn’t realize I was enamored by her when I was a II when I first saw her on Sesame Street, when she sang the ABC song. Later I remember when she was recognized at the first B.E.T. Awards. Rest in Peace, Ma’am. You are not forgotten ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@sugarsmacks250]

Y’all get in here…..our good sis just uploaded 🗣️🫶🏾

[@KarineAlourde]

🥹🥹 hey sis 🫶🏽🫶🏽✨

[@sugarsmacks250]

@@KarineAlourde hey boo 🤞🏾😘

[@shewhomustbobeyed1]

My mother was the flower girl for Lena Horne for the christening of a ship. The USS George Washington Carver in Richmond, CA. Ms. Horne was really good friends with my Uncle Cotrell Dellums. Ms. Horne was beautiful ❤

[@Atasham72]

I loved her so much as a little girl 😊 Even as she aged she was just gorgeous. I loved catching the black and white films of her. ❤❤❤

[@dalehoward3704]

A Beautiful Talented Woman ❤❤❤🖤🖤🖤. I'm glad you mentioned Lena and Ava's friendship.

[@angelazayas2753]

Breathtaking ❤❤❤❤ my papa loved her, Dorothy Dandridge and Diahann Carroll. He would say angrily "Hollywood and society is full of fools, to treat any beauty thats Not caucasian less than they deserve."

[@love112489]

Omg Ive been watching for years, I came for a story on Maria Callas "the greatest opera singer of her time" and see you haven't done her yet, her film starring Angelina Jolie is coming out this November , I was wondering if we could get a story on her from you I love your detail !

[@muffassa6739]

She's one of my favorite Actress and singers. I've enjoyed all of her movies a great beauty. I wish I could have met her. 😊

[@kyrunya]

I was just talking about The Wiz and here you are with Glenda the good with! 🥰🥰🥰

[@Kylynn420]

Hi miss Karine i hope all is well i know for sure God protected you during these stormy seasons

[@Kylynn420]

And oh wow she has ties to my city i bet she performed in the neighborhood I live in now called the Hill District. They used to call that little Harlem.

[@zacharyrome3432]

People get married for many different reasons even "regular" people so it is what it is on that for me .

[@JamalWilson1967]

I'm 57 yrs old. and the first time I ever heard Lena Horne's name it was on the comedy sitcom " Sanford and Son" ... didn't know at the time my mom had 25/30 pics of her and Dorothy Dandridge... Been hooked ever since!!!❤❤❤❤

[@lamar7902]

I loved watching her when she made a special guest appearance on Sanford and Son. Fred Sanford was in love with her, and he would always talk about the film Stormy Weather. 😊

[@GwendolynPorter-w6c]

I saw that episode! 😂 Fred lied about Lamont being lame and cripple! 😂😂😂

[@danilaroche1156]

I'm mixed. Indian, white and Jamaican. I resemble Lena. Light skin, fine hair, blah blah. I got and still get flak from people. Especially black people! They assume I'm stuck up & I'm not. Also, I'm educated and from an affluent family. I get alot of side eye for that.

[@renaissancewoman100]

Maybe it's how you carry yourself, how you treat people, behave, etc. Some dark skin people get the same judgment. It's not uncommon to be wealthy today.

[@funsizedazzy6708]

Yea my mother was like that because her dad is Louisiana creole my brother even thought our mom was white when we were younger it was hilarious cause he was figuring out race and stuff.

[@funsizedazzy6708]

@@renaissancewoman100 don’t dismiss her experience like that not cool 2 things can be true at the same time and I seen what she is talking about

[@HostileTakeover555]

Yes - Alicia Keys would have been a great choice. They really should have made that biopic years ago. Kind of seemed like a no brainer - not sure why they never made it

[@brooklynbred1460]

Because she's wooden.

[@funsizedazzy6708]

Yes and Alicia is a good at acting I loved her in secret life of bees

[@eyeseeeee]

Is that her real voice talking it's the 1st time I've actually ever heard her speak but w😮w can she sing BEAUTIFULLY

[@marionwilson7922]

I love the fact that she stood on business about not playing maid roles. When I seen this video I thought about Lola Falana and I noticed you did hers a year ago. I’m about to watch it now. I love your videos and how you narrate them.

[@pathough1068]

Lovely Lady. She reminds me of Alicia Keys. She could play Lena in a biopic.

[@karmaalegre6478]

My thoughts, exactly. 👏🏽🙌🏻👏🏽🙌🏻👏🏽🤗

[@lanasjoynt485]

Alicia Keys reminds you of HER?? She came first 😂😂😂

[@mariastewart9820]

She has a unique face ! She don't look like Alicia Keys !

[@LinneaSanchez]

Don’t disrespect Lina Horne by disrespecting her beauty by comparing her to Alicia Keys, who can’t hold a candle to Lina’s beauty and talent.

[@M.L89-u8f]

I see Aaliyah and Alicia Keys

[@rhonnidei]

Love your videos! Thank you for all you do.

[@KarineAlourde]

You are so welcome! Thank you for watching ❤❤

[@bobbiewright1500]

@@KarineAlourdecan you please do a video on Esther Rolle

[@amaata4746]

A very beautiful & talented woman. May she rest in perfect peace. 🙏 🌸 💐 🌹.

[@tashadavis2491]

Ms. Horne did what she thought was best for her career, im not here to judge. And so she followed her heart.

[@TheEbonyMystique]

Marriage for love is relatively new. And love alone isn't enough to make a marriage work.

[@danilaroche1156]

Nooo. Jacob loved Rachel. We're going back to Genesis. Issac loved Rebecca so whatchu talkin bout?

[@funsizedazzy6708]

@@danilaroche1156his first wife he didn’t love and a lot of upper class people did not marry for love most of the time it had to benefit the family

[@TheEbonyMystique]

@danilaroche1156 many marriages throughout history were made for the security of the families. Not because people were in love. They learned to love, or just endure, their spouses.

[@dre_withwithout]

Hearing her name always makes me think of that damn Nas song 😂 🖤

[@KarineAlourde]

😂😂😂

[@LinneaSanchez]

I’ve always loved Lina Horne! As an ethnically Mexican lady, people have always said that I look like Lina Horne, even when I was a child.

[@suzettebennett9112]

Lena

[@msbknows]

Great coverage of Miss Horne. This is the first time I heard Hollywood colored her skin to darken it. The way racism shows up is astonishing. These girlies today think they did something by starting makeup lines but they better get behind Miss Horne.🖤

[@TheRealPynkPanther]

love this video❤ she did get a nose job early in Hollywood, however. it was botched as well.

[@carlitah74]

I'm so glad you did, Lena Horne. I've always loved her voice and movies, even her records when she was older.

[@yvettecoates7077]

She was absolutely Beautiful 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@lolavox]

Lena had a rough go of it at that time but she did what she had to do. I can't really speak on it otherwise because God what an awful time to be alive as a black woman period. 😐❤

[@danilaroche1156]

I'm very light skinned with fine hair & 'white' features. I never thought I was better than anyone. I grew up in the 70s. Never was raised to feel superior. Well maybe a bit but I never bought into that BS.

[@ladyfirstladyfirst201]

Ms. Horne was and remains an Icon! We cannot imagine thd life of a light skinned woman in Hollyweird! Youre battling your career intentions but also your own mother? She did exactly what Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, and other old Hollywood and new Hollyweird actors do. I look at her and see legacy, icon, scarred, and blessed. She definitely paved a way for style, class, elegance, and grace that we as women of color encompass and run away from.

[@antoniagreco6316]

I have 4 of her albums she was so Beautiful and Elegantly put together You also have a great voice it relaxes me love your page I do fall asleep but not because I'm bored it's just it's so relaxing my BLIND friend says he loves your page too❤❤Thank you

[@drealempress7233]

I love this story ❤ Beautiful Lena knew the game and played well. The blood doesn't lie. I'm from Pittsburgh, and my dad comes from a mixed race, and this continues in my family. I just bought the memior. I can't wait to read. Thank you ❤

[@yahainHotPink]

Thank you Karine

[@KarineAlourde]

You are so welcome! Thank you 🖤🖤

[@yahainHotPink]

@@KarineAlourde You're welcome beauty! 🌹🌻

[@mik7564]

I enjoyed learning about Ms. Horne. I didn't know anything about her and had some misconceptions about her, but I'm glad to learn I was wrong. I'm glad to know that she fought for her identity and she truly is a beautiful human being. Please do an updated one on Dorthy Dandridge! I've always loved her. When I started drawing portraits, she was one of the first portraits I ever made. I just love her! Thanks!

[@amaliabouch2694]

Her and I share the same BD, June 30th. A beautiful soul who suffered the nonsense of Hollywood with grace. RIP 🖤

[@tashadavis2491]

Loved Lena, RIP 🎉🖤

[@rvegas81]

Looking forward to it. I found a copy of her 1950 Jazz cd on vinyl Ray C.

[@isaiahwells1630]

Thank you so much for doing an updated video on Lena , your work is amazing . I always have the last one on repeat LOL 🙌🏾

[@ivanawilliams279]

Her mother AND HER FATHER did her wrong, not just her mother.... They both abandoned her and her FATHER didn't protect her from her mother, yet alone others...

[@hallievanoutryve3109]

Glad she chose a kind man with her hypergamy- it looks like he adores her in the pictures. Would love to learn more about her friendship with Ava Gardner! Very sweet that the Showboat debacle didn’t tear them apart.

[@dyrldouglas2087]

Great photo array.

[@lula3656]

Alicia would look good but Lena was not mixed black and white both her parents were black . ❤❤ black is beautiful

[@cody7378]

Yeah right lol keep fooling urself she looked liked that from race mixing

[@vaimende]

Both lenas parents were mixed, amercia labelled everyone black!!!

[@imsowspecial31]

I've always been mesmerized by Ms. Horne. I use to enjoy watching her on TV programs & interviews. Having 2 grandmothers that looked white it was never hard for me think of Ms. Horne of anything else but black. She was smart, sassy, beautiful, and talented. She made me dream ..

[@Cobbmtngirl]

I love tofu but have never heard of or tried stinky tofu. “It smells like dirty socks” though. That doesn’t sound appetizing at all. 😂Lena was an amazing woman. Her mother was horrible. But she had a great dad! I love that she never played a maid as well. Thanks for this. 🖤 I have to say the clips where the photos move with the border flashing, bothers my eyes. JS

[@mizfrenchtwist]

hello , great share . lena , was a great beauty , actor and very classy but her voice , was not the best. i never knew , she was "old guard "....how cool😊😊😊😊. an amazing lady , RIP gone , but never forgotten . again , great content , thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰...............

[@christinahagglund8510]

So sad, she is so beutifull and good at her work! Envy, jealousy from other women and power over other women at that time and still today!

[@figmo397]

You could tell by the way she talked thet Lena Horne grew up around highly educated people. The woman oozed class and elegance. I remember her doing a commercial for The Gap where she was wearing jeans and she still looked elegant! I never understood why Hollywood would stick folks of color into these musical numbers that usually had nothing to do with the plot of the movie and wouldn't give them credit. I'd always wonder who these artists were and want to know. Later on I learned. Nowadays, of course, folks don't give a hoot about most of those movies except for the musical numbers that were cut out in The South.

[@erinsmith9984]

My grandma loved Lena Horne

[@Michelle_One_Good_Eye]

I think she was a brilliant and beautiful woman. I used to enjoy seeing her as a child when she would make guest appearances on Sanford and son, used to watch it every week with my grandfather, as it was his favorite show ❤🌹

[@beautifulsoultress3078]

When I was a little girl I would seee her on TV and just be awestruck by her beauty. She had a regal demeanor and classy style like my great grandma and grandmother

[@honey.shirin]

Stinky tofu is sooooo good! I just had it in Taiwan last week.

[@cat3375]

I have always been a fan of Lena Horne! She was an elegant and refined woman, yet very blunt. I was surprised to learn that she married a Caucasian man to flourish her career. It's intriguing how common this is in Hollywood. She should not have had such an arduous span in the industry. However, that is show business. RIP to the Queen, legend Lena Horne🖤🖤🕊

[@2Jersey]

🖤 ❤

[@crystalpistey-lyhne3406]

A True Classy Scarlett!

[@enolamsamoht]

Yes Alicia Keys is the best choice to be Lena in a biopic 🖤

[@joelprince4170]

Heey karine cam you do a vidoe on charming? You know that saying you catch more flies with honey then vinegar.

[@KarineAlourde]

Hey Joel, yes I can on my mental gems channel 🤎🤎

[@danilaroche1156]

​Karine is charming & smart.

[@andressadevad9411]

🖤 to a beautiful woman and icon 🖤

[@EVGriffinJr]

I was wondering if the whole Lena Horne biopic was gonna come up. Listen, I’m a huge fan of Janet Jackson, but even before the wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, I thought she was the wrong pic. I’m not a big fan of Alicia Keys but I must admit, she would not only look better, but she had the singing chops in the musicianship to pull it off. Janet, love you to the sky, but you would’ve been the wrong choice. Even without the controversy.

[@chica1ist]

Yess please make the movie

[@datingdiaries1681]

My Aunt used to babysit her daughter! Brooklyn finest !

[@jenniekirshner4887]

Betty Hutton

[@kyrunya]

I think I watched Cabin in the Sky on KZbin.

[@KarineAlourde]

It’s my favorite film with the. She was just a classic beauty 😍😍

[@kyrunya]

@@KarineAlourdeI LOVE classic movies! The clothes, the language, the class… I love everything about them. I was watching a movie with Betty Davis where the leading man lit her cigarette for her. Little things like that is why I love old movies. Lol!

[@robinstoops319]

🖤🖤🖤

[@BruceLee-t9n]

I love everything and anything old timey. Today's World Sux Ahss

[@chiaraedolce]

Omg I clicked so quick

[@SASHACLINTON-lz7ye]

I read both Lena Horne& Ava Gardner’s books and I assumed they were lovers as well. Many Hollywood actors and actresses back in the day were closeted lesbians and gay which would be very well accepted today. Also I had an uncle that was a Tuskegee Airman who was at one time dating Lena Horne. I have photos of them together with her daughter . I asked my uncle about her when he was in 90’s still very mentally sharp and he looked off into the distance and softly and slowly said “she was a very beautiful woman “ “a very beautiful woman” Lastly my Aunt Barbara was the same complexion as Lena had the same hair and was just as beautiful if not more so . My Uncle had great taste in women needless to say.

[@shamandalei9452]

Have you done one on Lucille Ball? From I Love Lucy

[@angelreed1162]

🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@heathersstanley7785]

🖤

[@Thenvisibleman]

It's amazing they spend so much money and time to lie instead of just keeping things authentic and pure but that's too much like the right thing to do hate is a sick sad thing

[@melishathomas6313]

HI can you do a video on Alain Delon.

[@lyndoraburroughs-robinson5663]

Megan Markle would be a better Lena Horne just on appearance 🎉😮

[@KiaraKnose]

I think Aaliyah could've been good to play her in a movie as well!

[@twylacrowder1256]

Another good video. I know there are cultures that still have arranged marriages and there are people who believe that love is a silly reason to marry. I don't have anything against either of those things, but I am a hopeless romantic so I still believe in marrying for love. Now as far as people being upset that her children married white people, I don't understand what the problem is. Why would anyone care who they marry? How does that affect them? That's just odd to me. And, wow... it never ceases to amaze me how jealous men can be of women in various ways. Imagine being so insecure as to think good girlfriends are more than just friends. Or are they so clueless and think so little of women that they think we women are jealous of each other or that we all hate each other. And yes, I think Alicia Keys would be a great casting choice for Lena Horne.

[@carolynmixon709]

Lena Horne was as beautiful on the outside as she was on the inside

[@jonsmith848]

New book entitled Lena Horne...Goddess Reclaimed. Author Donald Bogle

[@BigQuetBit]

Alicia would be a good fit for sure

[@limasierra6639]

So so sad listening to her talk about her childhood.

[@_Y777]

They Hyped Her Beauty Just Like They Do Any Other High Yellow Person

[@mascara1777]

Let's not use those outdated terms anymore. My mother was called high yella in the 50's, it's 2024 now. Lena faced her own difficulties as a light skinned black woman.

[@liliebilie]

Don’t forget that divide and conquer is their strategy. Instead of resenting each other we should see the beauty in all shades of brown from the lightest to the darkest. Projecting hate isn’t going to heal your wounds

[@liliebilie]

Some of these comments are just sad. Clearly a lot of people weren’t raised to love the skin they’re in. They created this system to divide people and it’s working based on what I’m seeing here. Yes, life was certainly harder for dark skin people but at the end of the day, they were all black people experiencing censure and discrimination in a segregated country. My own mother is so light that she genuinely doesn’t look black and yet she’s been called slurs and told to go back to her country because she still looks non-white and has an accent. People have pretended they couldn’t understand her even though she’s fluent and doesn’t have a thick accent. Doesn’t matter how light you are, if you are considered other you will be discriminated against at some point so instead of attacking each other we should support one another

[@BronzgoddessBotanicals]

You’re absolutely right. ❤ 💯

[@liliebilie]

@@BronzgoddessBotanicals thank you for the support ❤️

[@heatheralice89]

🖤 what a venus

[@Warrior57238]

Our race is American

[@signedlolablue464]

🖤🖤🖤🖤👍🏾

[@reynamotley1990]

🖤🖤🖤🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@Warrior57238]

Black is a color not a race

[@lynmeji]

Mixing is cool if it’s love but majority always stems from self hate… and that’s …not cute. People thinking their mixed children will actually be “better” looking. It’s a mess. As a bronxite I saw too much self hating acts and words growing up so my feelings are shaky

[@ivanawilliams279]

Alicia Keys favors her, in looks, not singing.

[@GwendolynPorter-w6c]

It sounds like Lena's mother was a narc! Male or female they behave the same. My narc second tried making similar threats in a public place once. Didn't work out for him. 😂😂😂😂

[@ivanawilliams279]

I Respectfully disagree agree with, "You can't help who you chose to love". And nothing against Mrs Horne. I like her as an actress and advocate and I understand her position, but I don't agree with certain things, and that's ok.

[@ellebelle222]

To be fair, she married a black man first

[@hovac1987]

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤. My Sweet Lena ❤

[@Shyyne713]

She looks biracial her white features are just stronger

[@danilaroche1156]

Calhoun looks scary!!!

[@deanadiedrich9304]

Oh, please, Lena Horne was a stunner.. but no Miss Perfect. Lena and Her family knew she would get by. Back then, the light skin people always felt they had a GIGANTIC step up above the rest. And they also had the knowledge that the blacks would be more accepting. Remember the brown paper bag test.. she passed that always! So don't feel sorry for lena, she didn't have it hard... like other people, Ethel Waters.. SURELY didn't like her! And Alicia keys is way to ghetto to play classy Lena! Janet, no way.. get a beautiful unknown and thanks for NOT playing your bros music.. its better without it! 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤!

[@danilaroche1156]

Alicia Keys is too mediocre to play her. Sorry !!

[@funsizedazzy6708]

Watch the secret life of bees Alcia played in that did good and it was in that time period

[@robfarris1785]

Philemon news: and yes, children and adults and their parents from around the world the late actress Lena Horne looks just like a white actress in motion picture and at home instead of a black actress. and yes, peoples from around the globe yes, the late actress Lena Horne is a mix-race woman just like this former college star Isaiah Alexander Maurice was born on April 1st, 1996, in Queen City, North Carolina and this former 76ers star captain Ben Cinnamons was born on July 20th, 1996, in outside of Sydney, Australia. and yes, both Maurice and Cinnamons are half-black young men of color. and yes, there is no doubt that half of the NBA players are half-black or half-white like Isaiah Hartenstein a professional basketball player Shaq O' Neal and Stephen A. Smith. and yes, Stephen A. Smith what about your two sons are half-black or half-white just like Enrique Freeman was on July 29th, 2000, and Jaylon Tyson was born on December 2nd, 2002, directors and filmmakers. hello! Ann Martin and Brenda Walls Long what is on your mind? A NEW FAMILY REUNION 2024!