LENA HORNE WAITS FOR DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

Lena Horne waits backstage at the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles where Dorothy Dandridge appeared in the musical “Sweet n’ Hot” (1944)

1944 Lena Horne backstage at Sweet and Hot

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  1. I took my mother and Granny to see Lena at the Golden Gate theater back in the 1980′s. Lena came out in a floor length sable sang a song…then took it off and dropped it on the stage and kicked it aside. “It’s mine so I can do that…” she said. We loved the show.

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