Highest rated movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)
Lowest rated movie: Murder by Television (1935)
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Movies starring Hattie McDaniel have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Gone with the Wind - released in 1939 - is Hattie McDaniel's highest rated movie, with a score of 86% based on 825 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Hattie McDaniel is Murder by Television - released in 1935 - with a score of 37% based on 2 reviews.
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 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 has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Edmund Mortimer, Dennis O'Keefe and Charley Grapewin.
Hattie McDaniel has worked with these film directors: George Stevens, Leigh Jason, William Keighley and Jack Conway.
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