Posted on 01/26/2006 8:08:22 AM PST by Borges
'GWTW's' Mammy was first black actress to win Oscar
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to win an Academy Award, was honored Wednesday with a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp.
McDaniel is the 29th person honored in the Postal Service's long-running Black Heritage stamp series.
The 39-cent stamp depicts the plump-faced McDaniel in a 1941 photograph in the blue dress she wore when she received the Oscar for best supporting actress in "Gone with the Wind" in February 1940.
McDaniel played Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 movie about the Civil War.
"She was a most special lady," McDaniel's "Gone with the Wind" co-star Ann Rutherford told AP Television News.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I loved her!
Beloved, beloved Hattie McDaniel!
Nice looking stamp. I'll be glad when we can buy something besides generic First Class.
Here's Tallulah....a dangerous belle in her day:
She don't nothing bout birthing no babies.
Just ain't fitting... Just aint fitting..
And what is the source for this gossip?
just type it into Google and check it out....I heard it years ago.
Gay groups have been honouring Hattie for years.
I don't think Bankhead had any....I woulda been glad to help her had I been around.
She came from arguably one of Alabama's most landed families from that day.
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Aunt Delilah. Great actress.
That was Prissy, played by Butterfly McQueen.
I stand corrected. I think I saw half of GWTW about thirty years ago.
PING to the nth power!!!!
1962 as a part of my reading program I read GWTW while a lifeguard. I went to Squadron Officers School as a 1st Lt and spent 3 months in Montgomery Alabama. It was 1968 and there was a theater in town where the movie had been continuously shown since its opening in 1939, (this was 1968.) I wonder if it's still being shown there?
from a new book about McDaniel...
"Why McDaniel, married four times, once to a man many presumed was gay, found it difficult to find and maintain a loving relationship and why there was speculation regarding her own sexual preference."
http://www.csusm.edu/cwis/newsmedia/releases/05-06/HattieMcDaniel.htm
Darn you! Beat me to it...
I'll never forget that famous line: "Miz Scarlet; I ain't never birthed no babies".
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