Star Facts
  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 1719 Vine Street

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

  • Category Radio

    Address 6933 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Hattie McDaniel
Born:
1895-06-10,
Wichita,
Kansas,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
African American
Death Date:
1952-10-26
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Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress and the first African American to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind. McDaniel was also a professional singer-songwriter, comedian, stage actress, radio performer, and television star. Hattie McDaniel was in fact the first black woman to sing on the radio in America. Over the course of her career, McDaniel appeared in over 300 films, although she received screen credits for only about 80. She gained the respect of the African American show business community with her generosity, elegance, and charm.

McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one for her contributions to radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for motion pictures at 1719 Vine Street. In 1975, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in 2006 became the first black Oscar winner honored with a US postage stamp.

Hattie McDaniel was born June 10, 1895, in Wichita, Kansas, to former slaves. She was the youngest of 13 children. Her father Henry McDaniel fought in the Civil War with the 122nd USCT and her mother, Susan Holbert, was a singer of religious music. In 1900, the family moved to Colorado, living first in Fort Collins and then in Denver, where Hattie grew up and graduated from Denver East High School. Her brother Sam McDaniel played the butler in the 1948 Three Stooges short film Heavenly Daze. Another acting sibling of Hattie and Sam was actress Etta McDaniel.

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