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Hattie McDaniel
Age: 60 (passed away Oct. 26th, 1952)
Height: 5' 2"
Birth Place: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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Hattie McDaniel's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: After working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George Stevens (I) and aided and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn, she makes it clear she has little use for her employers' pretentious status seeking. By The Mad Miss Manton (1938) she actually tells off her socialite employer Barbara Stanwyck and her snooty friends. This path extends into the greatest role of her career, Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). Here she is, in a number of ways, superior to most of the white folk surrounding her. From that point here roles unfortunately descended, with her characters becoming more and more menial. She played on the "Amos and Andy" and Eddie Cantor radio shows in the 1930s and 1940s; the title in her own radio show "Beulah" (1947-51), and the same part on TV ("Beulah" (1950)). Her part in Gone with the Wind (1939) won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, the first black to win an Academy Award.
TRIVIA:
- She had a one-time intimate affair with actress 'Tallulah Bankhead' (qv), according to chronicler of the Hollywood underground 'Kenneth Anger' (qv).
- When the date of the Atlanta premiere of _Gone with the Wind (1939)_ (qv) approached, McDaniel told director 'Victor Fleming' (qv) she would not be able to make it, when in actuality she did not want to cause trouble due to the virulent racism that was rampant in Atlanta at the time.
- Her father was a slave, who was eventually freed.
- She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard and for Motion Pictures at 1719 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
- McDaniel and 'Louise Beavers' (qv), both of whom played the title character _"Beulah" (1950)_ (qv) in the 1950s TV series, died ten years apart on October 26th.
- Arguably the first African-American woman to sing on radio (1915, with Professor George Morrison's Negro Orchestra, Denver, CO); first African-American to be buried in Los Angeles' Rosedale Cemetery
- Sister of actress 'Etta McDaniel' (qv).
- Sister of 'Sam McDaniel' (qv).
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