Hattie McDaniel

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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Dettaglio della persona

Hattie McDaniel

Filmografia

Via col vento

Il giudice

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

La canzone di Magnolia

Venere bionda

I racconti dello zio Tom

Un dramma per televisione

George Washington Slept Here

Girandola

Da quando te ne andasti

Preferisco mio marito

In questa nostra vita

Il terzo delitto

Primo amore

La grande menzogna

Saratoga

La storia del generale Custer

The Flame

Con mia moglie è un'altra cosa

La pista di fuoco

Abbandonata in viaggio di nozze

The Shopworn Angel

Ollio sposo mattacchione

Ossessione del passato

Margie

Battle of Broadway

La moglie bugiarda

The Crime Nobody Saw

The Boiling Point

Are You Listening?

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Mickey's Rescue

Janie

Janie Gets Married

Mickey

Maryland

Una donna vivace

Merry Go Round of 1938

Sky Racket

Over the Goal

Hypnotized

The Wildcatter

Non sono un angelo

Arbor Day

We're Only Human

Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry

The Washington Masquerade

L'uomo questo dominatore

Don't Tell the Wife

Quick Money

Music Is Magic

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Fate's Fathead

Sui mari della Cina

City Park

La forza dell'amore

Postal Inspector

Racing Lady

Merry Wives of Reno

Flirtation

Traveling Saleslady

Scendendo lungo Broadway

High Tension

3 Is a Family

Johnny arrivò in ritardo

La donna del giorno

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Reunion

Everybody's Baby

Hi, Beautiful

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

The Singing Kid

Mississippi Moods

Babbitt

The Impatient Maiden