 
				
				
						 Caption: Lena Horne hugs her daughter, Gail Jones, backstage at the York Playhouse, after Miss Jones made her stage debut in the opening performance of the musical "Valmouth" 10-07-1960
																																				
						Soundtrack, Actress
						Born: June 30, 1917
						Star sign: Cancer
												Known for: That's Entertainment! III (1994), Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), An Evening with Lena Horne (1994), The Family Man (2000)
						Source: IMDB
						Lena Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. In her biography she stated that on the day she was born, her father was in the midst of a card game trying to get money to pay the hospital costs. Her parents divorced while she was still a toddler. Her mother left later in order to find work as an actress and Lena was left in the ...