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

Okay Toots!

19357.0

Song of the South

19466.5

They Died with Their Boots On

19416.7

Libeled Lady

19367.3

Good-bye Love

19336.3

Hello, Sister!

19336.0

China Seas

19356.2

Vivacious Lady

19387.0

I'm No Angel

19336.4

The Flame

19475.8

Blonde Venus

19326.8

The Little Colonel

19356.6

In This Our Life

19426.9

Nothing Sacred

19376.3

Zenobia

19395.0

Racing Lady

19376.0

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel

2001

Family Honeymoon

19486.3

Since You Went Away

19446.6

Imitation of Life

19347.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Carefree

19386.7

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

19406.3

Show Boat

19366.7

The Great Lie

19417.0

Affectionately Yours

19414.5

The Shopworn Angel

19386.8

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

19345.2

Wig-Wag

19357.0

The Mad Miss Manton

19386.4

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

Hypnotized

19327.0

Becoming Marilyn

20227.6

George Washington Slept Here

19426.4

The Big Wheel

19495.7

Thank Your Lucky Stars

19436.2

Traveling Saleslady

19356.1

Are You Listening?

19325.6

Alice Adams

19356.7

Saratoga

19376.5

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

Operator 13

19345.9

Margie

19467.1

The Male Animal

19424.5

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

Musical Comedy Tonight III

1985

The Shining Hour

19386.7

The Washington Masquerade

19326.8

Battle of Broadway

19385.0

Music Is Magic

19355.3

The Singing Kid

19367.0

Judge Priest

19346.4

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

19366.7

The Impatient Maiden

19329.0

The Bride Walks Out

19365.4

Janie Gets Married

19467.3

Fate's Fathead

19348.0

Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests

2020

Maryland

19406.5

Another Face

19354.8

Anniversary Trouble

19356.8

True Confession

19376.1

We're Only Human

19356.5

The Golden West

19325.5

High Tension

19365.8

Babbitt

19346.3

Postal Inspector

19367.0

Johnny Come Lately

19437.0

Janie

19446.0

The Wildcatter

19378.0

Hi, Beautiful

19449.8

The Crime Nobody Saw

19375.5

Merry Go Round of 1938

19377.5

Star for a Night

19367.0

Murder by Television

19354.2

Can This Be Dixie?

19367.0

Mississippi Moods

193710.0

Don't Tell the Wife

19376.0

Sky Racket

19373.9

City Park

193410.0

The Boiling Point

19327.0

Gentle Julia

19367.0

Quick Money

19375.5

Flirtation

19345.6

Lost in the Stratosphere

19344.9

Reunion

19367.0

The First Baby

19368.0

Over the Goal

19375.0

Arbor Day

19366.2

3 Is a Family

19449.0

Mickey's Rescue

193410.0

45 Fathers

19374.5

Mickey

19487.0

Merry Wives of Reno

19344.4

The Chases of Pimple Street

19347.3

Everybody's Baby

19398.0

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

2022

Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry

2004