How Lena Horne Won Over MGM — and Became a “Test Case” for Hollywood The trailblazing singer on the day she (and her father) won over MGM’s Louis B. Mayer and grasped her star-is-born ...

In the early 1940s, a young Lena Horne began an engagement at an intimate L.A. club called Little Troc, where her silken voice — with her perfect enunciation and her sophisticated interpretation ...