Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel

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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Wichita, Kansas, USA, 1893-06-10

Died: 1952-10-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	The Impatient Maiden	Injured Patient (uncredited)	0
2	1932	Are You Listening?	Performer entering radio station	50
3	1932	The Washington Masquerade	Maid (uncredited)	65
4	1932	The Boiling Point	Caroline - the Cook (uncredited)	40
5	1932	Blonde Venus	Cora, Helen's Maid in New Orleans (uncredited)	68
6	1932	Hypnotized	Powder Room Attendant	0
7	1933	Hello, Sister!	Woman in Apartment House	62
8	1933	I'm No Angel	Manicurist (uncredited)	64
9	1933	Good-bye Love	Edna the Maid	55
10	1934	Mickey's Rescue	Maid	0
11	1934	Merry Wives of Reno	Bunny's Maid (uncredited)	48
12	1934	City Park	Tessie	0
13	1934	Operator 13	Annie (uncredited)	57
14	1934	Judge Priest	Aunt Dilsey	64
15	1934	King Kelly of the U.S.A.	Mop Buyer	43
16	1934	Flirtation	Abigail (uncredited)	49
17	1934	Lost in the Stratosphere	Ida Johnson	42
18	1934	Fate's Fathead	Mandy - the Maid	0
19	1934	Imitation of Life	Woman at Funeral (uncredited)	70
20	1934	Babbitt	Rosalie (uncredited)	60
21	1934	The Chases of Pimple Street	Hattie - Gertrude's Maid (uncredited)	60
22	1935	Okay Toots!	Maid (uncredited)	0
23	1935	The Little Colonel	Becky "Mom Beck" Porter	63
24	1935	Anniversary Trouble	Maid	63
25	1935	Traveling Saleslady	Martha Smith (uncredited)	59
26	1935	Wig-Wag	Cook	0
27	1935	China Seas	Isabel McCarthy, Dolly's Maid (uncredited)	63
28	1935	Alice Adams	Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner	67
29	1935	Murder by Television	Isabella	39
30	1935	Music Is Magic	Hattie (Amanda in credits)	40
31	1935	Another Face	Nellie (uncredited)	42
32	1935	We're Only Human	Molly	65
33	1936	The First Baby	Dora	0
34	1936	The Singing Kid	Maid (uncredited)	40
35	1936	Gentle Julia	Kitty Silvers	0
36	1936	Arbor Day	Buckwheat's Mother (uncredited)	60
37	1936	Show Boat	Queenie	68
38	1936	The Bride Walks Out	Mamie	53
39	1936	High Tension	Hattie	54
40	1936	Postal Inspector	Deborah	62
41	1936	Star for a Night	Hattie	60
42	1936	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie	Ellen Belle	64
43	1936	Libeled Lady	Scrubwoman in Grand Plaza Hall (uncredited)	73
44	1936	Can This Be Dixie?	Lizzie	0
45	1936	Reunion	Sadie	0
46	1937	Racing Lady	Abby	53
47	1937	Don't Tell the Wife	Mamie (uncredited)	0
48	1937	The Crime Nobody Saw	Ambrosia	50
49	1937	The Wildcatter	Pearl (uncredited)	0
50	1937	Mississippi Moods		0
51	1937	Saratoga	Rosetta	62
52	1937	Sky Racket	Jenny	28
53	1937	Over the Goal	Hannah	30
54	1937	Merry Go Round of 1938	Maid	50
55	1937	Nothing Sacred	Mrs. Walker (uncredited)	62
56	1937	45 Fathers	Beulah	10
57	1937	Quick Money	Hattie (uncredited)	40
58	1937	True Confession	Ella	58
59	1938	Battle of Broadway	Agatha	42
60	1938	Vivacious Lady	Hattie - Maid at Prom Dance (uncredited)	68
61	1938	The Shopworn Angel	Martha	71
62	1938	Carefree	Hattie (uncredited)	66
63	1938	The Mad Miss Manton	Hilda	64
64	1938	The Shining Hour	Belvedere	66
65	1939	Everybody's Baby	Hattie	0
66	1939	Zenobia	Dehlia	46
67	1939	Gone with the Wind	Mammy	79
68	1940	Maryland	Aunt Carrie	62
69	1940	Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Self	65
70	1941	The Great Lie	Violet	68
71	1941	Affectionately Yours	Cynthia, Sue's Cook	48
72	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Callie	66
73	1942	The Male Animal	Cleota	41
74	1942	In This Our Life	Minerva Clay	68
75	1942	George Washington Slept Here	Hester	63
76	1943	Johnny Come Lately	Aida	67
77	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Gossip in "Ice Cold Katie" Number	61
78	1944	Since You Went Away	Fidelia	65
79	1944	Janie	April, Conway's Maid	55
80	1944	3 Is a Family	Maid	0
81	1944	Hi, Beautiful	Millie	95
82	1946	Janie Gets Married	April	60
83	1946	Margie	Cynthia	69
84	1946	Never Say Goodbye	Cozy	63
85	1946	Song of the South	Aunt Tempy	64
86	1947	The Flame	Celia	56
87	1948	Mickey	Bertha	60
88	1948	Family Honeymoon	Phyllis	57
89	1949	The Big Wheel	Minnie	52
90	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)	33
91	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
92	1985	George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	56
93	1985	Musical Comedy Tonight III		0
94	1988	The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	Self (archive footage)	80
95	2004	Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry	Self (archive footage)	0
96	2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Self (archive footage)	75
97	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
98	2022	The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Beulah Show	Beulah	70
2	2018	Explained	Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)	75

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