Dr. Hannah Tericium Robbins

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404 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Feb

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They make a massive amount of connections.

This is also important in Lena Horne's later story because she meets people like the film director Vincent Minelli during this time.

So there's a lot of opportunity for her.

But this is also how she gets reconnected with, for example, black unions and black organizing because she becomes great friends with Robeson.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

She always said she never wanted to be a film star.

She was never interested in Hollywood.

She didn't like California.

Well, there's quite a lot of running away from California that comes actually.

But her agent persuades her to go to LA to a venue that Duke Ellington is working at.

This is a new up and coming space called the Little Troc.

And it became the go to place.

for Hollywood's great and good.

So people like Marlene Dietrich, Cole Porter, Greta Garbo were in the audience watching.

And at that time, Horne inevitably gets spotted by numerous film producers and film scouts.

And actually, that led initially to her having a screen test for the film Casablanca.

But actually, that character is then played by a man in the actual film.

Oh, no way.

Yeah.

And in the end, it's MGM, the producer Roger Edens, who sees Horne and takes her seriously and decides to take her to meet Arthur Freed.

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