Hattie McDaniel

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Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel in 1941
Born June 10, 1895(1895-06-10)
Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Died October 26, 1952(1952-10-26) (aged 57)
Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1932–1949
Spouse Larry Williams (1949-1950) (divorced)
James Lloyd Crawford (1941-1945) (divorced)
Howard Hickman (1938-1938) (divorced)
George Langford (1922-1922) (his death)
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Hattie McDaniel
Boonville Daily News (blog) - 1 day, 1 hour ago
By Elizabeth Davis Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10, 1895, in Wichita, Kansas. She was the first Black person to be nominated and win an Academy Award. The 1939 movie Gone with the Wind was nominated for twelve awards and took eight.


Oscarmetrics: Viola Davis, The Help, and Hollywood's Ongoing Issues With Race
Grantland (blog) - 23 hours, 45 minutes ago
since Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for her role as Gone With the Wind's house slave Mammy and tearfully expressed the hope that she would “always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.” How far we've come.


She The People
Washington Post (blog) - 1 week, 1 day ago
By Mary C. Curtis In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first black actress to win an Academy Award, for best supporting actress in the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind” playing Mammy, Miss Scarlett's maid. Her achievement was considered a breakthrough, ...


Will Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer of 'The Help' make Oscars history?
GoldDerby - 1 day, 15 hours ago
African American women have contended 16 times for Best Supporting Actress with Hattie McDaniel ("Gone with the Wind," 1939), Goldberg ("Ghost," 1990), Hudson ("Dreamgirls," 2006), and Mo'Nique ("Precious," 2009) prevailing. McDaniel was the first ...


Feb. 1: Racism in Hollywood and deadly predators
New York Daily News - 1 week ago
Hattie McDaniel gives Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara what for in “Gone With the Wind.” Ridgefield, Conn.: To Voicer Tanya Bonner: Mammy was the strongest, most loving character in “Gone With the Wind,” and Hattie McDaniel loved playing her.


Jacob Passy and Alex Kaufman | Sassy Cinema
Tufts Daily - 2 days, 1 hour ago
Since Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to be nominated for or win an Academy Award in 1940, only 24 women have followed in her footsteps for a total of 26 nominations. In the Academy Awards' 84-year history, five black women have won for ...


'Mammy' Skit Incites Arlington Mom to Protest
Afro American - 1 week, 5 days ago
by Valencia Mohammed Hattie McDaniel, pictured here, famously played Mammy in Gone with the Wind. (Courtesy Photo/commons.wikimedia.org) Check out related stories, research genealogies, or peruse all that our archives have to offer.


Being a Maid
Care2.com (blog) - 6 days, 18 hours ago
This is 73 years after the first African American to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel, garnered the award for the same role – as a maid, and a slave maid at that, winning the Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category on Feb. 29, 1940. And here we are, ...


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