Dr. Hannah Tericium Robbins

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You're Dead to Me · Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

So she actually drives MGM to put their money in more liberal spaces.

Yeah.

And for that, Lena Horne gets $350 a week, which is increased $100 a week every year.

And it's really important to say that while that is more than 10 times what she got at the Cotton Club, actually Fred Astaire's signing rate with MGM was $1,500 a week.

So although this was not small money, it was also not the equivalent of what the big stars were making.

And Fred Astaire's contract is from the early 30s.

So this is a decade later.

Well, if we use Hattie McDaniel as another black woman, Hattie McDaniel, who is already famous when she makes Gone With The Wind, makes $700 a week.

But I do think that it's worth saying that what Lena Horne has is a permanent contract.

So she's getting this every week.

Whereas, for example, Fred Astaire was never on retainer with MGM.

He did...

a higher cost contract, but for shorter times.

But you're absolutely right, there is a wealth discrepancy in this.

If you think, take the film Top Hat that Fred Astaire is in, he is paid, I think it's four times the amount that Ginger Rogers is paid, and she is paid in costumes, partially.

So there's the agenda component and then a black tax, for want of a better way of putting it.

Panama Hattie is an adaptation of a stage musical by Cole Porter.

And I think it's a really interesting insight into what MGM attempted to do with her.

And it's kind of a bleak insight simultaneously.

Apologies.

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