{"id":57641,"date":"2019-02-20T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57641"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:20:44","slug":"secrets-of-famous-1930s-blonde-bombshell-of-rhythm-revealed-with-help-from-uw-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57641","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of famous 1930s \u2018blonde bombshell of rhythm\u2019 revealed with help from UW library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/secrets-of-famous-1930s-blonde-bombshell-of-rhythm-revealed-with-help-from-uw-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Secrets of famous 1930s \u2018blonde bombshell of rhythm\u2019 revealed with help from UW library<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Washington<\/a><br \/>\n2012-03-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mwmcelroy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Molly McElroy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all have things in our past that we gloss over. Some secrets might just be embarrassing or unflattering. But others may be more serious, and people who conceal these truths may fear that revealing them would undermine their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>Such was likely the case with an Emmy-winning female bandleader who rose to fame in the 1930s and led bands until the 1960s. Known as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2011\/jul\/07\/ina-ray-hutton-melodears-jazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the blonde bombshell of rhythm<\/a>,\u201d this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_symbol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sex symbol<\/a> hailing from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> had security to protect her from the men who mobbed her performances.<\/p>\n<p>See why they were so enchanted:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzuYdOrUMKk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ina_Ray_Hutton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ina Ray Hutton<\/a>, who died in 1984 at age 67, also had a secret that could have damaged her stardom. A reporter from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KUOW radio<\/a>, with help from the UW libraries, recently revealed the secret. It turns out that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blonde_stereotype#Blonde_bombshell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blonde bombshell<\/a> had more than hair-dye to hide&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/secrets-of-famous-1930s-blonde-bombshell-of-rhythm-revealed-with-help-from-uw-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uw-s3-cdn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/03\/04215150\/dancingbeauties.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/secrets-of-famous-1930s-blonde-bombshell-of-rhythm-revealed-with-help-from-uw-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ina Ray Hutton rose to fame in the 1930s and was known as blonde bombshell of rhythm. But she had a secret that could have damaged her stardom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[3027,29526,5488,20374,14428,29523,12595,1392,29524,29525,745,29522],"class_list":["post-57641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-chicago","tag-glenda-pearson","tag-illinois","tag-ina-ray-hutton","tag-kuow","tag-kuow-public-radio","tag-molly-mcelroy","tag-music","tag-odessa-cowan","tag-phyllis-fletcher","tag-university-of-washington","tag-uw-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57643,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57641\/revisions\/57643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}