“I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plantation not unlike Tara”
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Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006, became the first black Oscar winner honored…
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Born 10 June 1893 · Died 26 October 1952 · Q228904
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The anniversary of McDaniel's death, the first full-length film about her life, The Dichotomy of Hattie McDaniel, produced by Houston Theater and media company Vincent Victoria Presents, premiered in Houston, Texas
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2023· 1 entry
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it would replace McDaniel's Oscar, returning it to Howard University in a ceremony which was held on October 1, 2023
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Black actress Hattie McDaniel was not allowed to sit with her white co-stars during the Academy Awards ceremony in 1940.” True.
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (2010).
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Mo'Nique, the winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Precious, wearing a blue dress and gardenias in her hair, as McDaniel had at the ceremony in 1940, in her acceptance speech thanked McDaniel "for enduring
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Was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
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2007· 1 entry
An article in The Huffington Post repeated rumors that the Oscar had been cast into the Potomac River by angry civil rights protesters in the 1960s
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2006· 1 entry
Featuring a 1941 photograph of McDaniel in the dress she wore to accept the Academy Award in 1940
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2002· 1 entry
McDaniel's legacy was celebrated in American Movie Classics's (AMC) film Beyond Tara, The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001), produced and directed by Madison D
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1999· 1 entry
Hollywood Cemetery offered to have McDaniel re-interred there, but after her family declined the offer the cemetery erected a cenotaph, now one of Hollywood's most popular tourist attractions, overlooking its lake
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1998· 1 entry
Howard University faced a barrage of negative press charging that it negligently "lost" the Oscar or, alternatively, allowed it to be stolen
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Tiny Parham & the Blues Singers: Complete Recording Sessions in Chronological Order, 1926-1928”.
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1994· 1 entry
Actress and singer Karla Burns, the first black performer to win a Laurence Olivier Award, launched her one-woman show Hi-Hat-Hattie (written by Larry Parr), about McDaniel's life
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1992· 1 entry
Jet magazine reported that Howard University could not find it and alleged that it had disappeared during protests in the 1960s
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1975· 3 entries
Awarded Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1975).
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Was inducted posthumously into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
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And in 2006, became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U
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1952· 3 entries
Died 1952-10-26.
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In the hospital of the Motion Picture House in the San Fernando Valley
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McDaniel died of breast cancer
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1951· 2 entries
McDaniel suffered a stroke, complicated by diabetes and a heart ailment, and was admitted to the Temple Hospital in Los Angeles
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The United States Army ceased broadcasting Beulah in Asia because troops complained that the show perpetuated negative stereotypes of black men as shiftless and lazy and interfered with the ability of black troops to per
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1949· 1 entry
In Yuma, Arizona, but divorced him in 1950 after testifying that their five months together had been marred by "arguing and fussing"
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1945· 1 entry
Some of the white West Adam Heights residents filed a lawsuit against 31 Black residents – including McDaniel
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1940).
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1938· 2 entries
McDaniel – along with other Black stars of the time including Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers – moved into a colonial mansion on 24th street in the West Adams Heights neighborhood in West Adams
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Negroes, willing and able to pay $15,000 and up for Heights property, had begun moving into the old eclectic mansions
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1935· 1 entry
McDaniel had prominent roles, as a slovenly maid in Alice Adams (RKO Pictures); a comic part as Jean Harlow's maid and traveling companion in China Seas (MGM) (also starring Clark Gable); and as the maid Isabella in Murd
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1934· 1 entry
McDaniel joined the Screen Actors Guild
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1931· 1 entry
McDaniel moved to Los Angeles, where she joined her brother Sam, and sisters Etta and Orlena
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1929· 1 entry
McDaniel could only find work as a washroom attendant at Sam Pick's Club Madrid near Milwaukee
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1910· 1 entry
Won a gold medal for reciting "Convict Joe", a Pre-Prohibition-era poem about the evils of alcohol, for a Women's Christian Temperance Union contest
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1902· 2 entries
Which restricted "Non-caucasians" from owning property
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Many of its early residents were required to sign a restrictive covenant
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1901· 1 entry
The family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado where McDaniel lived with her parents and three siblings in a house at 317 Cherry Street
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1893· 2 entries
Born 1893-06-10.
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To formerly enslaved parents in Wichita, Kansas
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