Jenny Lumet Reminisces On Grandma Lena Horne

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • Jenny Lumet talks about what it was like growing up with Grandma Lena Horne
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Комментарии • 60

  • @realshaho3180
    @realshaho3180 4 года назад +18

    You all should read Gail Lumet Buckley’s book, The Hornes. Gail, Lena’s daughter writes a detailed story of her mother’s life and ancestry for those of you who are interested in that. There’s beautiful photos of Lena’s mother, father, grandparents, great-aunt, and so on. Her family history is extensive and literally is the story of America.

  • @lionheartroar3104
    @lionheartroar3104 5 лет назад +13

    Lena was exquisite and mega talented

  • @javionriley8739
    @javionriley8739 5 лет назад +11

    There needs to be movie about her !!! Seriously

    • @ttp436
      @ttp436 Год назад

      For sure

  • @Maazzzo
    @Maazzzo 4 года назад +6

    I just wish this had been longer!

  • @lisamcdonald4215
    @lisamcdonald4215 5 лет назад +12

    She was a beautiful lady you should be proud. I love the music . Her look. I wish I could have met her the very first time seeing her was sesame street and followed her since ... Beautiful powerful black woman born beyond her time

    • @PsychicMedium4747
      @PsychicMedium4747 5 лет назад +2

      Richard Myles
      1 second ago
      Lena Horne was a MIXED RACE WOMAN. Both of her parents were MULTIGENERATIONAL mixed people. Why do people act like two parents cannot be mixed? Lena Horne was a not a black woman. Name one black tribe in africa that looks remotely like Lena....? Why are people being so ignorant? Leans inherited a substantial amount of white ancestry from both MIXED parents.

    • @richardbullis6263
      @richardbullis6263 4 года назад +5

      You are wrong and ignorant she never identified herself of mixed race always as black.

    • @richardbullis6263
      @richardbullis6263 4 года назад +4

      My friend just came back from Egypt and she said that the North Africans look light skin or white. Their are tribes in Africa who look like Lena Horne family. The white man went allover spilling his seed.

    • @sunshinelong9184
      @sunshinelong9184 2 года назад

      @Ricahrd Myles. Thankyou! I have been saying this. Lena Horne was Not black. Unfortunately, at that time she did have to identify as black. But in 2021. We really should not be saying she was a Beautiful Black Woman. She was A beautiful Mixed Woman. Yes. But not Black. Thankyou. I totally agree

  • @candicel.7696
    @candicel.7696 5 лет назад +7

    Love Ms.LENA ❤️

  • @kennadiegross5805
    @kennadiegross5805 5 лет назад +32

    I can’t believe Jenny is 51 she looks 30 it runs in the family

    • @J1258-7e
      @J1258-7e 5 лет назад +7

      She black

    • @richardbullis6263
      @richardbullis6263 4 года назад +3

      Amy Lumet is gorgeous also she looks more like Lena Horne. Amy is into fitness her body is made to look at. I want the old Amy back.

    • @richardmiiller1813
      @richardmiiller1813 2 года назад +2

      @FlackaMomma, AND BLACK DONT CRACK!!

    • @jackchen7003
      @jackchen7003 Год назад +2

      Lena Horne also looked very young in her old age

  • @individualm6712
    @individualm6712 6 лет назад +6

    I just introduced The Wiz tonmy little one. She was such a treasure.

  • @thewizboy
    @thewizboy 6 лет назад +8

    I love The Wiz too !

  • @richardbullis6263
    @richardbullis6263 5 лет назад +10

    First of all Lena Horne had no children with Lennie Hayton. Both of her children were with Louis Jones a black man from the black middle class. I heard from a source who knew her son that Louis Jones hated her. Louis also disowned his daughter Gail. I read in a biography that she miscarried Lennie Hayton child. They were under a lot pressure because of their marriage. Her children and grandchildren are black and then something else.I think in the end Lena Horne felt that black people were more like her than her white counterparts. Her grandchildren could take a stand and be more black. Lena Jones Hayes teaches school in the inner city and has a beautiful black daughter. All is not lost.

  • @stubbysmallpox
    @stubbysmallpox Год назад +1

    I love Lena Horne

  • @nikkihorne6671
    @nikkihorne6671 4 года назад +4

    I had learned that lena horne was my great great great aunt

  • @flamencomagick3260
    @flamencomagick3260 5 лет назад +9

    Your Grandmother was a boss & so are you!

  • @permijitdunkley5149
    @permijitdunkley5149 3 года назад +2

    art on the internet this Year 2020

  • @wilburmcbride8096
    @wilburmcbride8096 5 лет назад +4

    What show or movie she is best known for because I've never heard of her since she's related to Lena Horne?

  • @witnesstoitall1144
    @witnesstoitall1144 3 года назад +1

    Lmaoooo

  • @jesusistheonlywaytoheavenj7880
    @jesusistheonlywaytoheavenj7880 4 года назад +9

    Lena was definitely a mixed woman.who identified as black.....

    • @tylineburgos8879
      @tylineburgos8879 4 года назад +13

      lovelyn alobwede Lena lived in Jim Crow America. She was black. Social constructs like race evolve which show how ridiculous is is for ppl to treat them as rigid/definite boxes. Today in our more evolved society we can look back and call the one drop rule ridiculous but I think it’s a disservice to history to say she “identified” as black as if she really had any other option the way today’s generation does. My nanny (great grandma) and her siblings looked white to me but her brother was still lynched for dating a white woman when he was 20 so it feels a bit dismissive to say these ppl only identified as black when socially “race” was weighted dramatically differently from today, black today isn’t the same as black then.

    • @NSUVid
      @NSUVid 4 года назад +11

      incorrect, both of her parents were black, her grandmother may have been mixed race, but she just belonged to a family of fairer skinned black folks.

    • @sunshinejewel2952
      @sunshinejewel2952 4 года назад +2

      NSUVid she is mixed

    • @milkandspice1074
      @milkandspice1074 3 года назад +4

      @@NSUVid fair skinned black people means mixed.

    • @nkwari
      @nkwari 3 года назад +1

      Black people have always been biologically mixed, but white society labeled mixed as "Negro." That's why her character in old movies never was allowed a love interest.

  • @nicoleandrewa2061
    @nicoleandrewa2061 3 года назад +2

    Miss lumet, please enlighten me. I recall that the great miss Horne is my own great, great, great, great grandmother. She is and was very very beautiful. I agree that I might not be aware of some of my family. Where were you born??? Enquiring minds want to know...