Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her ...
DENVER — Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor to win an Oscar, started her career path to celebrity stardom in Colorado. Her family moved to Fort Collins in the early 1900s and then to Denver, where ...
Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best ...
Writer/director Vincent Victoria titled his feature film “The Dichotomy of Hattie McDaniel” to make a point about the woman who in 1940 became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award. “I wanted ...