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Hattie McDaniel
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Hattie McDaniel was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer who worked in television and film. Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1893, she began her professional career in 1932. McDaniel was an African American woman who spoke American English and recorded music for OKeh Records. Her work in music composing and acting led to recognition, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and induction into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
McDaniel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the same category. She is associated with five works and has been referenced by 496 other encyclopedia articles. She died of breast cancer in Woodland Hills in 1952 and was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Film & TV
Acting · Wichita, Kansas, USA
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…
Known for
- Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)2024
- The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 52022
- Becoming Marilyn2022
- Explained — Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)2018
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Self (archive footage)2009
- Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry — Self (archive footage)2004
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)1988
- Musical Comedy Tonight III1985
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1983
- The Beulah Show — Beulah1950
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1893
- Active to
- 1952
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 488
- Total plays
- 1,155
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Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress. She was the first African American to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). In addition to acting in many films, McDaniel was a professional singer-songwriter, comedian, stage actress, radio performer, and television star; she was the first black woman to sing on the radio in America. During her career <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ha
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- The Power of Feedback
· 2007 · cited 9,096x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,263x
- ClinVar: improving access to variant interpretations and supporting evidence
· 2017 · cited 4,058x
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Quotes
- “I desire a white casket and a white shroud; white gardenias in my hair and in my hands, together with a white gardenia blanket and a pillow of red roses.”
- “I’d rather play a maid than be one.”
- “It has made me feel very, very humble, and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything I may be able to do in the future, I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”
- “I knew that I could sing and dance...my mother would give me a nickel sometimes to stop.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wichita
- Place of death
- Woodland Hills
- Sibling
- Etta McDaniel
- Occupation
- philanthropist
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- American English
- Field of work
- music composing
- Record label
- OKeh Records
- Image
- 1941hattie.jpg
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- Hattie McDaniel
- date of birth
- 1893-06-10
- date of death
- 1952-10-26
- cause of death
- breast cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- name in native language
- Hattie McDaniel
- writing language
- American English
- end of work period
- 1949-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) 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 with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
In addition to acting, McDaniel recorded 16 blues sides between 1926 and 1929 and was a radio performer and television personality; she was the first black woman to sing on radio in the United States. Although she appeared in more than 300 films, she received on-screen credits for only 83. Her best known other major films are Alice Adams, In This Our Life, Since You Went Away, and Song of the South.
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