On Lena:

From “My Lunches With Orson” edited by Peter Biskind:

Interviewer: How did [Hedda Hopper] know about things like you and Lena [Horne]?
Orson Welles: She offered fifty dollars for information and people called her up. Not friends, but waiters or valet-parking people, anybody. Somebody reported that I went into Lena’s house or something. She and I never went out. In those days, you didn’t go out with a black woman. You could, they wouldn’t stop you, but things were delicate. And I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. I once took her our to the 21 Club, thinking it was safe. Jack Kriendler, who looked just like a baked potato, and owned it then with his cousin, behaved correctly. But he took me aside afterwards and said, “Next time, it would be better not to come here….I never wanted Lena her to think that anything had ever happened. She’s half-Indian, you know, red Indian. If you were black, nobody was ever luckier.
Interviewer: For being able to hide the fact that she was black?
Orson Welles: That was never hidden. She was black from the minute she stepped on the stage. I told you what Duke Ellington said about to me when he introduced us. He said, “This is a girl that gives a deep suntan to the first ten rows of the theatre!”