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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 10, 1893
Died
October 26, 1952
Place of Birth
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- Hattie McDaniels
Hattie McDaniel
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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
0.0
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
2022
7.5
Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)
Explained
2018
7.5
Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry
2004
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
0.0
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1985
6.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
🎬
6.5
Beulah
The Beulah Show
1950
5.2
Minnie
The Big Wheel
1949
5.7
Phyllis
Family Honeymoon
1948
Credits
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
2022
0.0
Explained
as Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)
2018
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.5
Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry
as Self (archive footage)
2004
0.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1985
0.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
🎬
The Beulah Show
as Beulah
1950
6.5
The Big Wheel
as Minnie
1949
5.2
Family Honeymoon
as Phyllis
1948
5.7
Mickey
as Bertha
1948
6.0
The Flame
as Celia
1947
5.7
Song of the South
as Aunt Tempy
1946
6.5
Never Say Goodbye
as Cozy
1946
6.2
Margie
as Cynthia
1946
6.9
Janie Gets Married
as April
1946
6.0
Hi, Beautiful
as Millie
1944
9.5
3 Is a Family
as Maid
1944
0.0
Janie
as April, Conway's Maid
1944
5.5
Since You Went Away
as Fidelia
1944
6.5
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Gossip in "Ice Cold Katie" Number
1943
6.0
Johnny Come Lately
as Aida
1943
6.7
George Washington Slept Here
as Hester
1942
6.3
In This Our Life
as Minerva Clay
1942
6.8
The Male Animal
as Cleota
1942
3.9
They Died with Their Boots On
as Callie
1941
6.6
Affectionately Yours
as Cynthia, Sue's Cook
1941
4.0
The Great Lie
as Violet
1941
6.9
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
6.5
Maryland
as Aunt Carrie
1940
6.2
Gone with the Wind
as Mammy
1939
7.9
Zenobia
as Dehlia
1939
4.6
Everybody's Baby
as Hattie
1939
0.0
The Shining Hour
as Belvedere
1938
6.6
The Mad Miss Manton
as Hilda
1938
6.3
Carefree
as Hattie (uncredited)
1938
6.6
The Shopworn Angel
as Martha
1938
6.7
Vivacious Lady
as Hattie (uncredited)
1938
7.0
Battle of Broadway
as Agatha
1938
4.0
True Confession
as Ella
1937
5.8
Quick Money
as Hattie (uncredited)
1937
4.0
45 Fathers
as Beulah
1937
1.0
Nothing Sacred
as Mrs. Walker (uncredited)
1937
6.3
Merry Go Round of 1938
as Maid
1937
5.0
Over the Goal
as Hannah
1937
3.0
Sky Racket
as Jenny
1937
3.0
Saratoga
as Rosetta
1937
6.2
🎬
Mississippi Moods
1937
0.0
The Wildcatter
as Pearl (uncredited)
1937
0.0
The Crime Nobody Saw
as Ambrosia
1937
4.3
Don't Tell the Wife
as Mamie (uncredited)
1937
5.0
Racing Lady
as Abby
1937
5.3
Reunion
as Sadie
1936
0.0
Can This Be Dixie?
as Lizzie
1936
0.0
Libeled Lady
as Scrubwoman in Grand Plaza Hall (uncredited)
1936
7.3
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Ellen Belle
1936
6.4
Star for a Night
as Hattie
1936
6.0
Postal Inspector
as Deborah
1936
6.2
High Tension
as Hattie
1936
5.4
The Bride Walks Out
as Mamie
1936
5.1
Show Boat
as Queenie
1936
6.8
Arbor Day
as Buckwheat's Mother (uncredited)
1936
6.0
Gentle Julia
as Kitty Silvers
1936
0.0
The Singing Kid
as Maid (uncredited)
1936
4.0
The First Baby
as Dora
1936
0.0
We're Only Human
as Molly
1935
6.5
Another Face
as Nellie (uncredited)
1935
4.2
Music Is Magic
as Hattie (Amanda in credits)
1935
4.0
Murder by Television
as Isabella
1935
4.0
Alice Adams
as Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner
1935
6.6
China Seas
as Isabel McCarthy, Dolly's Maid (uncredited)
1935
6.1
Wig-Wag
as Cook
1935
0.0
Traveling Saleslady
as Martha Smith (uncredited)
1935
5.5
Anniversary Trouble
as Maid
1935
6.3
The Little Colonel
as Becky "Mom Beck" Porter
1935
6.5
🎬
Okay Toots!
as Maid (uncredited)
1935
0.0
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Hattie - Gertrude's Maid (uncredited)
1934
6.0
Babbitt
as Rosalie (uncredited)
1934
6.0
Imitation of Life
as Woman at Funeral (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Fate's Fathead
as Mandy - the Maid
1934
0.0
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Ida Johnson
1934
4.2
Flirtation
as Abigail (uncredited)
1934
4.9
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
as Mop Buyer
1934
4.0
Judge Priest
as Aunt Dilsey
1934
6.4
Operator 13
as Annie (uncredited)
1934
5.8
City Park
as Tessie
1934
0.0
Merry Wives of Reno
as Bunny's Maid (uncredited)
1934
4.0
Mickey's Rescue
as Maid
1934
0.0
Good-bye Love
as Edna the Maid
1933
5.5
I'm No Angel
as Manicurist (uncredited)
1933
6.3
Hello, Sister!
as Woman in Apartment House
1933
5.8
Hypnotized
as Powder Room Attendant
1932
0.0
Blonde Venus
as Cora, Helen's Maid in New Orleans (uncredited)
1932
6.8
The Boiling Point
as Caroline - the Cook (uncredited)
1932
4.0
The Washington Masquerade
as Maid (uncredited)
1932
6.5
Are You Listening?
as Performer entering radio station
1932
5.0
The Impatient Maiden
as Injured Patient (uncredited)
1932
0.0