Lena Horne, 1982 - If there was ever a performer that could do it all, Lena Horne would be a top candidate.  Her first success came as a nightclub singer, a profession she pursued internationally with great success for more than 60 years.  Horne maintained a recording career that stretched from 1936 to 2000, resulting in three Grammy’s, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1989.  She also appeared in 16 feature films, performed on Broadway, entertained troops at military bases around the world, and sang and acted on radio and television.  Adding to the challenge of maintaining such a remarkably successful and long career, Lena Horne overcame vast obstacles, not just as a successful woman in a man’s profession, but also as an African American facing consistent discrimination during a period of enormous social change.  No matter, she prevailed, her talent and star-quality winning out in the end.  This photo was taken by Francesco Scavullo in 1983, when Horne was 65, the year after she won a Tony Award for her own one-woman Broadway show, “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music”.  For a lifetime of achievement in the arts, she was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, awarded to her in 1984.