Hattie McDaniel

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

133

Movies

100

Born: June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952
From: 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).

Works

100 films

Gone with the Wind

19397.9

Song of the South

19466.5

They Died with Their Boots On

19416.7

Libeled Lady

19367.3

Okay Toots!

19357.0

I'm No Angel

19336.4

The Little Colonel

19356.6

Blonde Venus

19326.8

Hello, Sister!

19336.0

In This Our Life

19426.9

Good-bye Love

19336.3

Imitation of Life

19347.0

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

China Seas

19356.2

Nothing Sacred

19376.3

The Flame

19475.8

Vivacious Lady

19387.0

Racing Lady

19376.0

Carefree

19386.7

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel

2001

Zenobia

19395.0

Show Boat

19366.7

Since You Went Away

19446.6

The Great Lie

19417.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Traveling Saleslady

19356.1

Family Honeymoon

19486.3

The Mad Miss Manton

19386.4

Operator 13

19345.9

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

19345.2

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

19406.3

George Washington Slept Here

19426.4

Alice Adams

19356.7

Judge Priest

19346.4

Margie

19467.1

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

Affectionately Yours

19414.5

The Washington Masquerade

19326.8

Wig-Wag

19357.0

The Shopworn Angel

19386.8

Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests

2020

The Male Animal

19424.5

Saratoga

19376.5

Thank Your Lucky Stars

19436.2

Hypnotized

19327.0

Maryland

19406.5

The Big Wheel

19495.7

Are You Listening?

19325.6

Becoming Marilyn

20227.6

The Shining Hour

19386.7

High Tension

19365.8

Music Is Magic

19355.3

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

19366.7

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

True Confession

19376.1

Gentle Julia

19367.0

The Bride Walks Out

19365.4

Battle of Broadway

19385.0

The Impatient Maiden

19329.0

Janie

19446.0

The Singing Kid

19367.0

Another Face

19354.8

Musical Comedy Tonight III

1985

Star for a Night

19367.0

Postal Inspector

19367.0

Fate's Fathead

19348.0

Anniversary Trouble

19356.8

We're Only Human

19356.5

The Golden West

19325.5

Quick Money

19375.5

Lost in the Stratosphere

19344.9

Can This Be Dixie?

19367.0

Merry Go Round of 1938

19377.5

Don't Tell the Wife

19376.0

The Crime Nobody Saw

19375.5

Over the Goal

19375.0

Janie Gets Married

19467.3

Johnny Come Lately

19437.0

45 Fathers

19374.5

Babbitt

19346.3

Mickey

19487.0

3 Is a Family

19449.0

City Park

193410.0

Murder by Television

19354.2

Sky Racket

19373.9

Merry Wives of Reno

19344.4

The Wildcatter

19378.0

Hi, Beautiful

19449.8

The First Baby

19368.0

Arbor Day

19366.2

The Boiling Point

19327.0

Everybody's Baby

19398.0

Mississippi Moods

193710.0

Reunion

19367.0

Mickey's Rescue

193410.0

Flirtation

19345.6

The Chases of Pimple Street

19347.3

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

2022

Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry

2004