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).
Hattie McDaniel Biography / Wiki
| Name | Hattie McDaniel |
| Also Know | Hattie McDaniels |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Wichita, Kansas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1895-06-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 57 |
| Deathday | 1952-10-26 |
Hattie McDaniel Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry | Self (archive footage) | 2004-01-01 | “I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,†McDaniel said as she accepted the 1st Academy Award g… |
| Mickey’s Rescue | Maid | 1934-03-22 | When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home…. |
| Hi, Beautiful | Millie | 1944-12-18 | Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O’Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bunga… |
| The Shopworn Angel | Martha | 1938-07-15 | During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car … |
| Mickey | Bertha | 1948-06-23 | A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town…. |
| The Chases of Pimple Street | Hattie – Gertrude’s Maid (uncredited) | 1934-12-22 | In order to get out of his boss’s doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result…. |
| Gone with the Wind | Mammy | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| George Washington Slept Here | Hester | 1942-10-30 | New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy… |
| The Great Lie | Violet | 1941-04-05 | After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child…. |
| Battle Of Broadway | Agatha | 1938-04-22 | The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son’s romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall’s 1938 … |
| Maryland | Aunt Carrie | 1940-07-19 | A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his fa… |
| Johnny Come Lately | Aida | 1943-09-03 | Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will b… |
| Okay Toots! | Maid (uncredited) | 1935-02-02 | Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes husb… |
| Song of the South | Aunt Tempy | 1946-11-12 | Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br’er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents’ separation as well as his new life on… |
| Fate’s Fathead | Mandy – the Maid | 1934-11-17 | Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble…. |
| 3 Is a Family | Maid | 1944-11-23 | Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, “3 Is a Family” is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his w… |
| Deep South | 1936-09-20 | 1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel…. | |
| Murder by Television | Isabella | 1935-10-01 | James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process t… |
| Saratoga | Rosetta | 1937-07-23 | A horse breeder’s granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y…. |
| Affectionately Yours | Cynthia, Sue’s Cook | 1941-05-10 | A married reporter’s assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females…. |
| The Shining Hour | Belvedere | 1938-11-18 | A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it…. |
| Arbor Day | la mère de Buckwheat | 1936-05-02 | Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang…. |
| The Male Animal | Cleota | 1942-03-12 | The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten… |
| Wig-Wag | Cook | 1935-04-11 | When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend…. |
| Since You Went Away | Fidelia | 1944-06-30 | While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make en… |
| In This Our Life | Minerva Clay | 1942-05-08 | An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister’s husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her…. |
| The Flame | Celia | 1947-11-24 | George McAllister (John Carroll), the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, and lives in constant je… |
| Family Honeymoon | Phyllis | 1948-12-06 | Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant’s former girlfriend Minna. But on t… |
| The Big Wheel | Minnie | 1949-11-04 | The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father’s legacy and achieve his own successes…. |
| Janie | April, Conway’s Maid | 1944-09-02 | Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold)…. |
| Merry Go Round of 1938 | Maid | 1937-11-14 | Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief…. |
| Racing Lady | Abby | 1937-01-12 | A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer’s thoroughbred in ord… |
| Never Say Goodbye | Cozy | 1946-11-09 | Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star… |
| Janie Gets Married | April | 1946-06-22 | Newlywed Janie’s (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father’s (Edward Arnold) newspaper…. |
| High Tension | Hattie | 1936-07-10 | Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn’t want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn’t want her to date other men…. |
| The Little Colonel | Becky “Mom Beck” Porter | 1935-02-22 | After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to nev… |
| Good-bye Love | Edna the Maid | 1933-11-09 | A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn’t know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor… |
| Another Face | Nellie (uncredited) | 1935-12-20 | The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!… |
| The First Baby | Dora | 1936-04-02 | When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn…. |
| Lost in the Stratosphere | Ida Johnson | 1934-11-14 | Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But whe… |
| Show Boat | Queenie | 1936-05-17 | Despite her mother’s objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company’s new leading lady…. |
| Zenobia | Dehlia | 1939-04-21 | A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter’s upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant…. |
| Margie | Cynthia | 1946-10-15 | Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie’s girlhood in the roaring twenties. In flashback, Margie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High,… |
| The Crime Nobody Saw | Ambrosia | 1937-03-12 | Three playwrights (Lew Ayres, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker) develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment…. |
| Music Is Magic | Hattie (Amanda in credits) | 1935-11-01 | An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus…. |
| The Bride Walks Out | Mamie | 1936-07-10 | Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carol… |
| Gentle Julia | Kitty Silvers | 1936-04-10 | A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right…. |
| Can This Be Dixie? | Lizzie | 1936-11-13 | A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation…. |
| King Kelly of the U.S.A. | Mop Buyer | 1934-09-15 | A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny–and bankrupt–kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daught… |
| Sky Racket | Jenny | 1937-10-01 | A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky…. |
| Alice Adams | Malena Burns – Maid Serving Dinner | 1935-08-23 | In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climb… |
| Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Ellen Belle | 1936-10-06 | Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, … |
| Flirtation | Abigail (uncredited) | 1934-11-09 | A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother’s visit…. |
| Everybody’s Baby | Hattie | 1939-03-24 | The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic…. |
| Musical Comedy Tonight III | 1985-11-22 | Sylvia Fine hosts this musical show featuring some great American singing and dancing stars, featuring music by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Berlin and K… | |
| 45 Fathers | Beulah | 1937-11-26 | An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can…. |
| The Boiling Point | Caroline – the Cook (uncredited) | 1932-07-15 | Jimmy’s uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk’s ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbe… |
| The Mad Miss Manton | Hilda | 1938-10-21 | When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves t… |
| They Died with Their Boots On | Callie | 1941-11-20 | The story follows General George Armstrong Custer’s adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th… |
| Over the Goal | Hannah | 1937-10-16 | The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would s… |
| Postal Inspector | Deborah | 1936-08-16 | Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car…. |
| The Wildcatter | Pearl (uncredited) | 1937-06-06 | Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, “Lucky” Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen’s blessing. In Texas, Lucky … |
| Judge Priest | Aunt Dilsey | 1934-09-15 | Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense… |
| Don’t Tell the Wife | Mamie (uncredited) | 1937-03-05 | After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies–along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee–to help him sell worthless … |
| City Park | Tessie | 1934-05-01 | The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obta… |
| Hello, Sister! | Woman in Apartment House | 1933-04-14 | Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together…… |
| Carefree | Hattie (uncredited) | 1938-09-02 | Dr. Tony Flagg’s friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunder… |
| Are You Listening? | Performer entering radio station | 1932-03-21 | WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsor… |
| We’re Only Human | Molly | 1935-12-27 | A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster…. |
| The Washington Masquerade | Maid (uncredited) | 1932-07-09 | An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptation… |
| Merry Wives of Reno | Bunny’s Maid (uncredited) | 1934-04-18 | Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces…. |
| Blonde Venus | Cora, Helen’s Maid in New Orleans (uncredited) | 1932-09-23 | American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatme… |
| True Confession | Ella | 1937-12-24 | A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn’t bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she … |
| The Impatient Maiden | Injured Patient (uncredited) | 1932-03-01 | A maid’s dream comes true but are not quite what she expected…. |
| Star for a Night | Hattie | 1936-08-28 | Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful…. |
| I’m No Angel | Manicurist | 1933-10-06 | The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she’ll put her head … |
| Quick Money | Hattie (uncredited) | 1937-12-10 | Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying… |
| Libeled Lady | Scrubwoman in Grand Plaza Hall (uncredited) | 1936-10-09 | When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the pub… |
| China Seas | Isabel McCarthy (uncredited) | 1935-08-09 | Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only ris… |
| Thank Your Lucky Stars | Gossip in ‘Ice Cold Katie’ Number | 1943-09-25 | An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort…. |
| Reunion | Sadie | 1936-11-20 | Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for del… |
| Babbitt | Rosalie (uncredited) | 1934-12-08 | Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George … |
| Traveling Saleslady | Martha Smith (uncredited) | 1935-03-28 | A toothpaste magnate’s mischievous daughter, tired of her father’s traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father’s rival and a… |
| Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed | 1968-08-31 | Did you know that the first open-heart surgery was performed by a Black doctor, Daniel Hale Williams? Not many people did in 1968, the year this eye-o… | |
| Nothing Sacred | Mrs. Walker (uncredited) | 1937-11-25 | When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine…. |
| Operator 13 | Annie (uncredited) | 1934-06-08 | American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gai… |
| Vivacious Lady | Hattie – Maid at Prom Dance (uncredited) | 1938-05-13 | College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer…. |
| Blonde Venus | 1932-09-23 | American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatme… | |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 | This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage…. |
| Imitation of Life | Woman at Funeral (uncredited) | 1934-11-23 | A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami… |
| 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year | 2009-07-02 | This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood’s greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special…. | |
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey | 1985-03-03 | Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son…. | |
| The Singing Kid | Maid (uncredited) | 1936-04-10 | Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl … |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | ‘Gone with the Wind’ screen test (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 | Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t… |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Herself | 1940-07-31 | This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche… |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Herself (archive footage) | 1983-02-25 | Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
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