LEGENDARY ACTRESS/SINGER LENA HORNE DEAD AT 92

Lena Horne, the movies’ first black screen siren — and a hit jazz recording artist and nightclub performer as well — died Sunday in New York at the age of 92. The cause of death was not disclosed. Although she performed memorably in such films as Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather, she learned early on that her race would bar her from many other productions. She once told the Los Angeles Times, “After I realized I would only go so far, I went on the stage.”