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Birthday
June 10, 1893
Day of Death
1952-10-26
(59 years old)
Place of Birth
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
Hattie McDaniels
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.
Gone with the Wind
The Beulah Show
Song of the South
They Died with Their Boots On
The Big Wheel
The Flame
Imitation of Life
Blonde Venus
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2009
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1988
1985
1983
1961
1949
1948
1947
1946
1944
1943
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
1937
True Confession
as Ella
Quick Money
as Hattie (uncredited)
45 Fathers
as Beulah
Nothing Sacred
as Mrs. Walker (uncredited)
Merry Go Round of 1938
as Maid
Over the Goal
as Hannah
Sky Racket
as Jenny
Saratoga
as Rosetta
The Wildcatter
as Pearl (uncredited)
The Crime Nobody Saw
as Ambrosia
Don't Tell the Wife
as Mamie (uncredited)
Racing Lady
as Abby
1936
Reunion
as Sadie
Can This Be Dixie?
as Lizzie
Libeled Lady
as Scrubwoman in Grand Plaza Hall (uncredited)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Ellen Belle
Star for a Night
as Hattie
Postal Inspector
as Deborah
High Tension
as Hattie
The Bride Walks Out
as Mamie
Show Boat
as Queenie
Arbor Day
as Buckwheat's Mother (uncredited)
Gentle Julia
as Kitty Silvers
The Singing Kid
as Maid (uncredited)
The First Baby
as Dora
1935
We're Only Human
as Molly
Another Face
as Nellie (uncredited)
Music Is Magic
as Hattie (Amanda in credits)
Murder by Television
as Isabella
Alice Adams
as Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner
China Seas
as Isabel McCarthy, Dolly's Maid (uncredited)
Wig-Wag
as Cook
Traveling Saleslady
as Martha Smith (uncredited)
Anniversary Trouble
as Maid
The Little Colonel
as Becky "Mom Beck" Porter
Okay Toots!
as Maid (uncredited)
1934
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Hattie - Gertrude's Maid (uncredited)
Babbitt
as Rosalie (uncredited)
Imitation of Life
as Woman at Funeral (uncredited)
Fate's Fathead
as Mandy - the Maid
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Ida Johnson
Flirtation
as Abigail (uncredited)
Judge Priest
as Aunt Dilsey
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
as Mop Buyer
Operator 13
as Annie (uncredited)
City Park
as Tessie
Merry Wives of Reno
as Bunny's Maid (uncredited)
Mickey's Rescue
as Maid
1933
1932
