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 they didn't design the wigs.

They wouldn't have anything to do with her.

The head of hairdressing designed her wigs.

She once referred to him deciding to make her look like Hedy Lamarr as a result.

Like actually this became part of the racial othering of her is because she ended up having someone who didn't know anything about her hair or how she would look.

design quote-unquote white hairstyles that were then put on her head they then hired this black woman tiny to look after her and they've become sort of for a long time friends tiny helps look after her kids and you know yeah that is a a tiny happy nugget in a very bleak amazing moment hannah when we talk about the jim crow laws you know these are segregation laws that keeping white and black people apart in public spaces

Yeah, the Jim Crow laws were about protecting quote unquote white interests.

They were about restricting interracial marriage.

They were about restricting employment rights post the abolition of slavery.

And they existed well into the 20th century.

And Ava Gardner in Showboat, which was a role Lena Horne really wanted.

So she's playing a character called Julie, who is a white passing mixed race woman, you know, speaking as a white passing mixed race person.

I find it kind of funny how that role is always played by white actresses.

But yeah, they used her foundation shade to try and add, quote unquote, ethnic ambiguity or imply non-whiteness on white actors.

You know what I'm talking about, that look.

Absolutely she was.

She was often described as the first black pinup, particularly for white soldiers at that point.

And she went on tour with the USO.

Yeah, this is the United Service Organisations and they were specifically thinking about getting entertainment to people who were fighting in the war.

But she soon discovered in her words that Jim Crow existed or was alive and well in the army.

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