Desiree Burch
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692 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Desiree Burch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're Dead to Me · Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood · 20 Feb 2026
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Like usually it's sort of like stable or it's like a Miles Davis version where it's like everything just sort of careens into insanity.
I was waiting to see if there was ever any of that element, but it seemed like she was just trying to be resilient against, like, being buffeted by society and all of these various odds.
Like, being expelled from Hollywood as a communist and going to Europe and coming back from that and having a whole renewed phase of your career where everyone's like, oh, actually, here's all of your flowers and a Broadway show and, you know, all of this work is really incredible and rarely happens.
That's right.
Any final thoughts?
That's really incredible.
What an amazing woman.
I mean, I...
She never called me and helped me out.
So Alex Horn is my book.
You know, I took notes and I think, I don't know if they've helped because there's too many notes and I think I maybe will miss the forest for the trees, but let's try this.
Yeah, I know, but I'm 46, so what's a memory?
So I decided to write things down, but now there's too many facts because normally people die young.
Oh, she was an actress.
Oh, the unfortunately named but purposely named Cotton Club.
I mean, okay, what were they pinning up before?
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Okay.
Oh, I wrote this down in my notes.
Please halt.
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