Stormy Weather Though '' Stormy Weather '' unabashedly celebrated Lena Horne as a powerfully attractive performer , permitting a pinup sexuality that crossed racial lines , the film is fatally divided between the hideously dated minstrel-show tradition of black entertainment , as represented by the film 's ostensible star , the great vaudeville dancer Bill -LRB- Bojangles -RRB- Robinson , and the sophistication of the Harlem nightclub scene , as embodied by Ms. Horne , Cab Calloway , Fats Waller , the Nicholas Brothers and -LRB- from the realm of high art -RRB- Katherine Dunham and her dancers .