Lena Horne Book Excerpt: How Actress-Singer Won Over MGM

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The trailblazing singer on the day she (and her father) won over MGM’s Louis B. Mayer and grasped her star-is-born moment, as recounted in Donald Bogle’s new biography.

In the early 1940s, a young Lena Horne began an engagement at an intimate L.A.

club called Little Troc, where her silken voice — with her perfect enunciation and her sophisticated interpretation of the lyrics — dazzled the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Cole Porter, Lana Turner and Greta Garbo. Among the many eyes that observed her

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