"Since blacks were not allowed to live in Hollywood, 'Felix Young, a white man, signed for the house as if he was going to rent it,' Ms. Horne said. 'When the neighbors found out, Humphrey Bogart, who lived right across the street from me, raised hell with them for passing around a petition to get rid of me.' Bogart, she said, 'sent word over to the house that if anybody bothered me, please let him know.'"
Aljean Harmetz in The New York Times reports the death of Lena Horne.
Monday, May 10, 2010
No Sun Up in the Sky
Labels:
Bogart,
cultural history,
movies,
music,
New York,
obituaries,
theater,
twentieth century
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