Biography
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Etta McDaniel
[Sister]
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Sam McDaniel
[Brother]
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Susan Holbert
[Mother]
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Henry McDaniel
[Father]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.
That`s a powerful lucky rabbit`s foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I`ve ever had.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
I`ve played everything but a harp.
I`m letting no man handle my bank account.
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
I don`t belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
I did my best, and God did the rest.
I am loathe to get married again. I`ve been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
I always have the best of everything.
Faith is the black person`s federal reserve system.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I`ll take roast chicken and dumplings.
A woman`s gifts will make room for her.
"Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn`t, I`d be making $7 a week being one."
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"I`d rather play a maid than be one."
Life
Trivia
Arguably the first African-American woman to sing on radio (1915, with Professor George Morrison`s Negro Orchestra, Denver, CO); first African-American to be buried in Los Angeles` Rosedale Cemetery
The human "Mammy" character in the Tom+Jerry Cartoons was based on her. This human supporting character was best remembered for shouting "THOMAS" very loudly.
Was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. She won as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). She became the first African-American to attend the Academy Awards as a guest, not a servant.
47 years after her death, has been memorialized by a pink-and-gray granite monument at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Her wish to be buried in Hollywood at her death in 1952 was denied amid the racism of the era. [1999]
Sister of Sam McDaniel.
Sister of actress Etta McDaniel.
She willed her Oscar to Howard University, but the Oscar was lost during the race riots at Howard during the 1960s. It has never been found.
Her father was a slave, who was eventually freed.
Despite the fact Clark Gable played a joke on her during the filming of Gone with the Wind (1939) (he put real brandy in the decanter instead of iced tea during the Bonnie Blue birth celebration scene), McDaniel and Gable were actually good friends. Gable later threatened to boycott the premiere in Atlanta because McDaniel was not invited, but later relented when she convinced him to go.
Is an honorary member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated
Lived in a middle class African American section of Los Angeles coined "Sugar Hill".
Pictured on a USA 39¢ commemorative postage stamp in the Black Heritage series, issued 25 January 2006.
Despite her substantial salaries for her various roles, her estate was valued at less than $10,000 when her will was made public. She left her last husband, Larry Williams, only $1.
Her Academy Award was presented by Fay Bainter.
McDaniel and Louise Beavers, both of whom played the title character "Beulah" (1950) in the 1950s TV series, died ten years apart on October 26th.
Is one of four African-American actresses to receive the Academy Award. The others, in chronological order, are Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost (1990), Halle Berry for Monster`s Ball (2001) and Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006).
She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard and for Motion Pictures at 1719 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
She had a one-time intimate affair with actress Tallulah Bankhead, according to chronicler of the Hollywood underground Kenneth Anger.
McDaniel and Louise Beavers, both of whom played the title character "Beulah" (1950) in the 1950s TV series, died ten years apart on October 26th.
Her Academy Award was presented by Fay Bainter.
Despite her substantial salaries for her various roles, her estate was valued at less than $10,000 when her will was made public. She left her last husband, Larry Williams, only $1.
Lived in a middle class African American section of Los Angeles coined "Sugar Hill".
Is a honorary member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated
Despite the fact Clark Gable played a joke on her during the filming of Gone with the Wind (1939) (he put real brandy in the decanter instead of iced tea during the Bonnie Blue birth celebration scene), McDaniel and Gable were actually good friends. Gable later threatened to boycott the premiere in Atlanta because McDaniel was not invited, but later relented when she convinced him to go.
When the date of the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind (1939) approached, McDaniel told director Victor Fleming she would not be able to make it, when in actuality she did not want to cause trouble due to the virulent racism that was rampant in Atlanta at the time.
Her father was a slave, who was eventually freed.
She willed her Oscar to Howard University, but the Oscar was lost during the race riots at Howard during the 1960s. It has never been found.
47 years after her death, has been memorialized by a pink-and-gray granite monument at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Her wish to be buried in Hollywood at her death in 1952 was denied amid the racism of the era. [1999]
Weighed 200 pounds.
Was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. She won as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). She became the first African-American to attend the Academy Awards as a guest, not a servant.
The human "Mammy" character in the Tom+Jerry Cartoons was based on her. This human supporting character was best remembered for shouting "THOMAS" very loudly.
McDaniel`s marriages were all troublesome. Her first husband was shot and killed shortly after the wedding, her second lasted less than a year, and her fourth lasted four months.
Arguably the first African-American woman to sing on radio (1915, with Professor George Morrison`s Negro Orchestra, Denver, CO); first African-American to be buried in Los Angeles` Rosedale Cemetery
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