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Lena Home



Home, Lena (1917– ), U.S. actress and blues singer. Home began her career as a 16-year-old chorus dancer in New York City's Cotton Club and made her movie debut in The Duke Is Tops (1938). Home gained widespread recognition for her singing in the movie Stormy Weather (1943) and went on to be a popular nightclub singer in Europe and the United States.



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