Gifted, silky-voiced chanteuse whose glamorously icy exterior made a marvelous contrast with the inner fire of her sultry, often fierce singing style. Horne made her debut as a chorine at New York's Cotton Club in 1933 and is best remembered in films for a series of "guest star" appearances in 1940s musicals where she performed such memorable songs as "Love" and "The Lady Is a Tramp". The first…
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