[ad_1] In 1942, Lena Horne made history when she signed a seven-year contract with MGM. She wasn’t the first Black performer to sign a long-term contract with a major studio (MGM had signed actress Nina Mae McKinney to a five-year contract in 1929), but she was the first to receive the full glamour-girl treatment. Horne […]
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