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

They could only rehearse the final rehearsals in the building.

It was quite a tense set up.

But at the same time,

A number of major artists like Cab Calloway, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, Adelaide Hall were all working there.

And Duke Ellington was crucial.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think in the bigger story for Lena Horne, the meeting with Duke Ellington is the really essential thing that happens at the Cotton Club, because he identifies her as a talent that is going to be marketable.

And he pops up a number of times in her career going forwards.

And he starts introducing her to other singers who begin to mentor her.

She starts, I should say, at the Cotton Club.

earning quite a lot of money so she earned more than double the average african-american weekly wage at about 25 a week which sounds like nothing now but actually was quite a considerable sum in the depression and edna particularly but edna and mike her mum and her stepfather were really excited at this opportunity and started to push the management of the cotton club to try and give her better spots to give her opportunities to leave the cotton club and perform in other places and to give her more money so actually what happened was that the cotton club became

quite a hostile and unrewarding environment for Lena because she had kind of unhappy conditions in general.

And then her caregivers basically hustling the management to the point that her stepfather actually got beaten up by some heavies because he was getting on management's nerves so much.

So she began as a dancer, but she was singing as well.

Like the chorus was multifaceted.

And she certainly started to get spots during this time.

She stars in her first Broadway musical called Dance With Your Gods.

And she would go do that and then come back and perform at the Cotton Club.

I mean, I would describe this as the main transition into her, like, musical career.

She decides the only way to break her contract at the Cotton Club, given the environment, is to run away.

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