No, I'm not old enough to have seen Stormy Weather when it came out in 1943. But I did see Lena Horne in person when she took her one-woman Broadway hit Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music on the road in the mid-80s. In her sixties, she had more energy than I had in my thirties when I saw her. It was a fabulous show. She never got the movie career she deserved, but she shines in this movie, just released on Blu-Ray in a lovely print. There's not much plot--this is one of those big studio revues that is essentially a string of production numbers with just enough narrative to keep them all together. But with Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, and the amazing Nicholas Brothers, you don't really need a plot.
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