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.
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That was Prissy, played by Butterfly McQueen.
Hattie McDaniel played Mammy. She got the red petticoat.
I never heard Hattie McDaniel was a "lesbian." Everyone knows that Tallulah Bankhead, born of Southern Nobility,
was totally wanton, or at least that was the "Image" created of her.
Hattie McDaniel is worthy of being honored by America.
She certainly behaved far better than Tallulah.
Tallulah Bankhead stole the movie "LIFEBOAT" - an outstanding performance. I believe Hitchcock directed it.
yep....and Die Die My Darling too
with the dead guy in the bathtub scene....I always remembered that as a lad
she was way hot young too
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