Hattie McDaniel
Acting
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).
Becoming Marilyn
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Musical Comedy Tonight III
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Wheel
Minnie
Family Honeymoon
Phyllis
Mickey
Bertha
The Flame
Celia
Song of the South
Aunt Tempy
Never Say Goodbye
Cozy
Margie
Cynthia
Janie Gets Married
April
Hi, Beautiful
Millie
3 Is a Family
Maid
Janie
April, Conway's Maid
Since You Went Away
Fidelia
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Gossip in "Ice Cold Katie" Number
Johnny Come Lately
Aida
George Washington Slept Here
Hester
In This Our Life
Minerva Clay
The Male Animal
Cleota
They Died with Their Boots On
Callie
Affectionately Yours
Cynthia, Sue's Cook
The Great Lie
Violet
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Maryland
Aunt Carrie
Gone with the Wind
Mammy
Zenobia
Dehlia
Everybody's Baby
Hattie
The Shining Hour
Belvedere
The Mad Miss Manton
Hilda
Carefree
Hattie (uncredited)
The Shopworn Angel
Martha
Vivacious Lady
Hattie (uncredited)
Battle of Broadway
Agatha
True Confession
Ella
Quick Money
Hattie (uncredited)
45 Fathers
Beulah
Nothing Sacred
Mrs. Walker (uncredited)
Merry Go Round of 1938
Maid
Over the Goal
Hannah
Sky Racket
Jenny
Saratoga
Rosetta
Mississippi Moods
The Wildcatter
Pearl (uncredited)
The Crime Nobody Saw
Ambrosia
Don't Tell the Wife
Mamie (uncredited)
Racing Lady
Abby
Reunion
Sadie
Can This Be Dixie?
Lizzie
Libeled Lady
Scrubwoman in Grand Plaza Hall (uncredited)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Ellen Belle
Star for a Night
Hattie
Postal Inspector
Deborah
High Tension
Hattie
The Bride Walks Out
Mamie
Show Boat
Queenie
Arbor Day
Buckwheat's Mother (uncredited)
Gentle Julia
Kitty Silvers
The Singing Kid
Maid (uncredited)
The First Baby
Dora
We're Only Human
Molly
Another Face
Nellie (uncredited)
Music Is Magic
Hattie (Amanda in credits)
Murder by Television
Isabella
Alice Adams
Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner
China Seas
Isabel McCarthy, Dolly's Maid (uncredited)
Wig-Wag
Cook
Traveling Saleslady
Martha Smith (uncredited)
Anniversary Trouble
Maid
The Little Colonel
Becky "Mom Beck" Porter
Okay Toots!
Maid (uncredited)
The Chases of Pimple Street
Hattie - Gertrude's Maid (uncredited)
Babbitt
Rosalie (uncredited)
Imitation of Life
Woman at Funeral (uncredited)
Fate's Fathead
Mandy - the Maid
Lost in the Stratosphere
Ida Johnson
Flirtation
Abigail (uncredited)
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Mop Buyer
Judge Priest
Aunt Dilsey
Operator 13
Annie (uncredited)
City Park
Tessie
Merry Wives of Reno
Bunny's Maid (uncredited)
Mickey's Rescue
Maid
Good-bye Love
Edna the Maid
I'm No Angel
Manicurist (uncredited)
Hello, Sister!
Woman in Apartment House
Hypnotized
Powder Room Attendant
Blonde Venus
Cora, Helen's Maid in New Orleans (uncredited)
The Boiling Point
Caroline - the Cook (uncredited)
The Washington Masquerade
Maid (uncredited)
Are You Listening?
Performer entering radio station
The Impatient Maiden
Injured Patient (uncredited)