Overview

Born : June 10, 1893 in Wichita, Kansas, USA

Died : October 26, 1952 in Woodland Hills, California, USA  (breast cancer)

Nicknames : Hi-Hat Hattie, The Colored Sophie Tucker , Mamie

Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)

In the wake of functioning as soon as the 1910s as a band singer, Hattie McDaniel appeared as a house cleaner in The Golden West (1932). Her servant mammy characters turned out to be consistently more emphatic, appearing first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming articulated in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, coordinated by George Stevens and helped and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn, she makes it clear she has little need for her bosses' self important status chasing. By The Mad Miss Manton (1938) she really reprimands her socialite manager Barbara Stanwyck and her self important companions. This way reaches out into the best job of her vocation, Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). Here she is, in various ways, better than the vast majority of the white people encompassing her. Starting there her jobs sadly slipped, with her characters turning out to be increasingly humble. She played on the "Amos and Andy" and Eddie Cantor public broadcasts during the 1930s and 1940s; the title in her own public broadcast "Beulah" (1947-51), and a similar part on TV (Beulah (1950)). Her part in Gone with the Wind (1939) won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, the main African American entertainer to win an Academy Award, it was introduced to her by Fay Bainter at an isolated service, she needed to sit at the move in an opposite direction from the remainder of the cast.

Apparently the principal African-American lady to sing on radio (1915, with Professor George Morrison's Negro Orchestra, Denver, CO); first African-American to be covered in Los Angeles' Rosedale Cemetery

The human "Mammy" character in the Tom+Jerry Cartoons depended on her. This human supporting person was best associated with yelling "THOMAS" uproariously.

Was the main African-American to win an Academy Award. She won as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her job of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). She turned into the principal African-American to go to the Academy Awards as a visitor, not a worker.

47 years after her demise, has been memorialized by a pink-and-dark stone landmark at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Her desire to be covered in Hollywood at her passing in 1952 was kept in the midst of the prejudice from getting the time. [1999]

Sister of Sam McDaniel.

Sister of entertainer Etta McDaniel.

She willed her Oscar to Howard University, yet the Oscar was lost during the race riots at Howard during the 1960s. It has never been found.

Her dad was a slave, who was in the end liberated.

Whenever the date of the Atlanta debut of Gone with the Wind (1939) drew nearer, McDaniel told chief Victor Fleming she wouldn't have the option to make it, when in reality she would have rather not create problems because of the destructive bigotry that was widespread in Atlanta at that point.

Regardless of the reality Clark Gable pulled a trick on her during the recording of Gone with the Wind (1939) (he put genuine cognac in the decanter rather than chilled tea during the Bonnie Blue birth festivity scene), McDaniel and Gable were old buddies. Peak later took steps to blacklist the debut in Atlanta on the grounds that McDaniel was not welcomed, however later yielded when she persuaded him to go.

Is a privileged individual from Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated.

Lived in a working class African American part of Los Angeles begat "Sugar Hill".

Imagined on a USA 39¢ dedicatory postage stamp in the Black Heritage series, gave 25 January 2006.

Notwithstanding her significant pay rates for her different jobs, her home was esteemed at under $10,000 when her will was disclosed. She left her last spouse, Larry Williams, just $1.

Her Academy Award was introduced by Fay Bainter.

McDaniel and Louise Beavers, both of whom played the title character Beulah (1950) during the 1950s TV series, passed on decade separated on October 26th.

Is one of 7 African-American entertainers to get the Academy Award. The others, in sequential request, are Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost (1990), Halle Berry for Monster's Ball (2001), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011) and Viola Davis for Fences (2016).

She was granted 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.

She made some one-memories close issue with entertainer Tallulah Bankhead, as per writer of the Hollywood underground Kenneth Anger.

Profiled in book "Entertaining Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999]

Was referred to in both George Clooney and Mo'Nique's Oscar acknowledgment addresses.

In spite of the fact that her headstone at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles and her commemoration cenotaph at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery show 1895 as her extended period of birth, Kansas evaluation records for her family dated March first, 1895 show her age as 2, affirming that the year on her funerary markers is erroneous.

Whenever dark entertainers and entertainers couldn't track down a respectable spot to remain in Los Angeles, Hattie made her ways for them at her home.

Hattie's dubious vocation was analyzed in the AMC-TV narrative "Past Tara, the Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel" facilitated by Whoopi Goldberg.

An enormous vaudeville star in her day as a vocalist and artist.

Mc Daniel played the lead on the public broadcast "Beulah" from 1947 to 1952. Hattie featured in six TV episodes of Beulah (1950) when it was moved to the little screen until, because of her analysis of bosom malignant growth, Ethel Waters assumed control over the "Beulah" job and purportedly couldn't stand the work.


Gone after by the NAACP during her vocation for showing up in bad, generalized subservient jobs, Hattie emphatically and gladly expressed that she did all that could be expected. She proceeded to express that she worked for herself as well as naturally suspected she was working for people in the future of African-Americans also. She generally trusted individuals would come around and comprehend what she needed to go through in Hollywood and was very harmed at the manner in which she was dealt with, for the jobs she was unable to get, and how the NAACP continued to push the picture of Lena Horne on her.

Was the thirteenth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939) at The twelfth Academy Awards on February 29, 1940.

Memoir in "Entertainers of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

Is one of 13 entertainers who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a film that likewise won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Gone with the Wind (1939)). The others are Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Meryl Streep for Kramer versus Kramer (1979), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong'o for quite some time a Slave (2013).

Showed up in four Oscar Best Picture chosen people: Imitation of Life (1934), Alice Adams (1935), Libeled Lady (1936) and Gone with the Wind (1939), with Gone with the Wind winning in the class.

She has showed up in three movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, by and large or tastefully" critical: Imitation of Life (1934), Show Boat (1936) and Gone with the Wind (1939).

Her dad was a Civil War veteran.

Subsequent to wedding piano player Howard Hickman she framed an all-female performer bunch.

Her siblings Sam and Otis were performers. Sam performed with a carnival band. Otis was a Denver-based entertainer.

Her mom Susan brought forth thirteen kids, just seven made due.

Beginning in 1908 Hattie and her siblings, Sam and Otis, performed with the J.M. Johnson's Mighty Minstrels.

List of Hattie McDaniel Movies

  • Beulah (TV Series)
  •  The Big Wheel
  •  Family Honeymoon
  •  Mickey
  •  The Flame
  •  Song of the South
  •  Never Say Goodbye
  •  Margie
  •  Janie Gets Married
  •  Hi, Beautiful
  •  Three Is a Family
  •  Janie
  •  Since You Went Away
  •  Thank Your Lucky Stars
  •  Johnny Come Lately
  •  George Washington Slept Here
  •  In This Our Life
  •  The Male Animal
  •  They Died with Their Boots On
  •  Affectionately Yours
  •  The Great Lie
  •  Maryland
  •  Gone with the Wind
  •  Elephants Never Forget
  •  Everybody's Baby
  •  The Shining Hour
  •  The Mad Miss Manton
  •  Carefree
  •  The Shopworn Angel
  •  Vivacious Lady
  •  Battle of Broadway
  •  True Confession
  •  Quick Money
  •  45 Fathers
  •  Nothing Sacred
  •  Merry-Go-Round of 1938
  •  Over the Goal
  •  Flight Into Danger
  •  Saratoga
  •  Mississippi Moods
  •  The Wildcatter
  •  The Crime Nobody Saw
  •  Don't Tell the Wife
  •  Racing Lady
  •  Reunion
  •  Can This Be Dixie?
  •  Libeled Lady
  •  Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
  •  Star for a Night
  •  Postal Inspector
  •  High Tension
  •  The Bride Walks Out
  •  Show Boat
  •  Arbor Day (Short)
  •  Gentle Julia
  •  The Singing Kid
  •  The First Baby
  •  Next Time We Live
  •  We're Only Human
  •  It Happened in Hollywood
  •  Music Is Magic
  •  Murder by Television
  •  Harmony Lane
  •  Alice Adams
  •  China Seas
  •  The Four Star Boarder (Short)
  •  Wig-Wag (Short)
  •  Traveling Saleslady
  •  False Witness
  •  The Little Colonel
  •  Okay Toots! (Short)
  •  Anniversary Trouble (Short)
  •  The Chases of Pimple Street (Short)
  •  Little Men
  •  Babbitt
  •  Fate's Fathead (Short)
  •  Lost in the Stratosphere
  •  Flirtation
  •  Imitation of Life
  •  Judge Priest
  •  King Kelly of the U.S.A.
  •  Operator 13
  •  City Park
  •  Merry Wives of Reno
  •  Mickey's Rescue (Short)
  •  Good-bye Love
  •  I'm No Angel
  •  Clipped Wings
  •  Hypnotized
  •  The Golden West
  •  Blonde Venus
  •  Crooner
  •  The Boiling Point
  •  Mad Masquerade
  •  Are You Listening?
  •  The Impatient Maiden
  •  Deep South   &  Many more....