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

Like these are not the same shades of foundation to put it a horrible way.

And I think there's a really important point about how she was lit and how she was represented.

So yeah, you're right.

The Max Factor, Max Space Factor, was working for MGM and was used to making bespoke foundation shades.

So he made one called Platinum for Jean Harlow.

And he makes light Egyptian for Lena Horne.

But this is just one part of the reality of the hair and makeup environment for her.

When she does her screen test, they only have the makeup for Bilbo Drangles Robinson on hand.

People who know what Bilbo Drangles Robinson looks like know that he's a much darker skinned actor.

And so she actually looked like she was in a minstrel show in her screen test.

And that is actually what leads them to develop the Max Factor shade.

But we also have

The reality that the hairdressers union banned their members from touching her head.

And so the head of hairdressing has to design all her styles himself, hired a black woman off the books.

She's called Tiny Kyle and she becomes part of like Lena Horne's core circle.

Tiny Kyle is a great name.

Yeah, that is a great name.

But there's a really important point here that...

Not only is she subject to this appalling condition, but she can't have her hair and makeup done in the same room as the white actors who are being treated by union members.

So some of the stories about her being isolated, about her being cold and aloof from other performers and particularly from other black performers was specifically to do with the way in which the hairdresser union treated her.

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