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The Big Wheel

as Minnie

1949
The Flame

as Celia

1947
Song of the South

as Aunt Tempy

1946
Margie

as Cynthia

1946
Since You Went Away

as Fidelia

1944
Janie

as April, Conway's Maid

1944
In This Our Life

as Minerva Clay

1942
The Male Animal

as Cleota

1942
The Great Lie

as Violet

1941
Affectionately Yours

as Cynthia, Sue's Cook

1941
Gone with the Wind

as Mammy

1939
Zenobia

as Dehlia

1939
The Shopworn Angel

as Martha

1938
Saratoga

as Rosetta

1937
Racing Lady

as Abby

1937
Show Boat

as Queenie

1936
The Bride Walks Out

as Mamie

1936
Arbor Day

as la mère de Buckwheat

1936
Murder by Television

as Isabella

1935
The Little Colonel

as Becky "Mom Beck" Porter

1935
Hattie McDaniel Hattie McDaniel

Birthday

1895-06-10

Place of Birth

Wichita, Kansas, USA

Biography

Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 - October 26, 1952) was an American actress whose portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black person to win an Academy Award. 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 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) the character she portrays actually tells off her socialite employer Barbara Stanwyck and her snooty friends. This path extends into the greatest role of McDaniel's career, Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). Mammy is, in a number of ways, superior to most of the white folk surrounding her. From that point, McDaniel's roles unfortunately descended, with the characters becoming more and more menial. McDaniel played on the "Amos and Andy" and Eddie Cantor radio shows in the 1930s and 1940s, the title character in her own radio show "Beulah" (1947-51), and the same part on TV (Beulah, 1950).
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