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).
100 acting credits
Acting · 100
Gone with the Wind
1939
Explained
2018
Hollywood Black
2024
Operator 13
1934
Song of the South
1946
The Beulah Show
1950
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Imitation of Life
1934
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Since You Went Away
1944
Nothing Sacred
1937
Blonde Venus
1932
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Margie
1946
Vivacious Lady
1938
Alice Adams
1935
Becoming Marilyn
2022
China Seas
1935
The Great Lie
1941
In This Our Life
1942
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
The Flame
1947
Libeled Lady
1936
The Big Wheel
1949
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
I'm No Angel
1933
Carefree
1938
Zenobia
1939
The Male Animal
1942
Saratoga
1937
Family Honeymoon
1948
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Judge Priest
1934
The Singing Kid
1936
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Show Boat
1936
The Shopworn Angel
1938
The Little Colonel
1935
Hello, Sister!
1933
The Impatient Maiden
1932
The Shining Hour
1938
Don't Tell the Wife
1937
Traveling Saleslady
1935
Are You Listening?
1932
Hi, Beautiful
1944
The Wildcatter
1937
Gentle Julia
1936
Reunion
1936
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Maryland
1940
The First Baby
1936
Another Face
1935
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
True Confession
1937
Affectionately Yours
1941
Quick Money
1937
The Washington Masquerade
1932
Mickey
1948
Over the Goal
1937
We're Only Human
1935
Everybody's Baby
1939
George Washington Slept Here
1942
City Park
1934
Star for a Night
1936
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1985
3 Is a Family
1944
The Bride Walks Out
1936
Babbitt
1934
Janie
1944
45 Fathers
1937
Battle of Broadway
1938
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
1934
Murder by Television
1935
Johnny Come Lately
1943
The Boiling Point
1932
Postal Inspector
1936
High Tension
1936
Good-bye Love
1933
Hypnotized
1932
Merry Go Round of 1938
1937
Racing Lady
1937
Music Is Magic
1935
Flirtation
1934
Arbor Day
1936
The Golden West
1932
Sky Racket
1937
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
2022
Wig-Wag
1935
The Crime Nobody Saw
1937
Merry Wives of Reno
1934
Lost in the Stratosphere
1934
The Chases of Pimple Street
1934
Okay Toots!
1935
Mickey's Rescue
1934
Janie Gets Married
1946
Anniversary Trouble
1935
Fate's Fathead
1934
Mississippi Moods
1937
Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry
2004