Who won an Oscar for her role as 'Mammy' in 'Gone With The Wind'?
"Award for ""Precious"". Hattie McDaniel recorded infrequently as a singer. In addition to the musical numbers over her long career in films, she recorded for Okeh Records, Paramount, and the small Kansas City, Missouri label Merrit. All of her known recordings (some of which were never issued) were recorded in the 1920s. Notes Bibliography Hattie McDaniel Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893October 26, 1952) was an American stage actress, professional singer-songwriter, and comedian. She is best known for her role as ""Mammy"" in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first"
"role as Mammy in the epic movie ""Gone with the Wind"", for which she became the first African American to win an Academy Award. She had expressed a desire to be interred at Hollywood Memorial Park. At the time of McDaniel's death in 1952, Hollywood Memorial, like other cemeteries, was segregated. Despite McDaniel's expressed wish, Roth would not allow the actress to be interred in the cemetery. Hollywood Forever would be desegregated seven years later. In 1999 (the 47th anniversary of McDaniel's death), the cemetery's current owner dedicated a cenotaph in her honor at a prime location south of Sylvan"
"the film after Vivien Leigh, with Flinn placing it third after Leigh's and Gable's performances. At the 12th Academy Awards, ""Gone with the Wind"" set a record for Academy Award wins and nominations, winning in eight of the competitive categories it was nominated in, from a total of thirteen nominations. It won for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Editing, and received two further honorary awards for its use of equipment and color (it also became the first color film to win Best Picture). Its record of eight"
"aged 94, on June 4, 1998 at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan. Her ashes were scattered near her niece’s home at Springfield, Oregon. Josephine Hutchinson Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 – June 4, 1998) was an American actress. She acted in several theater plays and films. Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in ""Gone with the Wind"". Through her mother's connections, Hutchinson made her film debut at the age of 13 in ""The Little Princess"" (1917), starring Mary Pickford. She later attended the"
"Hepburn. McDaniel ultimately became best known for playing a sassy and opinionated maid. The competition to win the part of Mammy in ""Gone with the Wind"" was almost as fierce as that for Scarlett O'Hara. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to film producer David O. Selznick to ask that her own maid, Elizabeth McDuffie, be given the part. McDaniel did not think she would be chosen because she had earned her reputation as a comic actress. One source claimed that Clark Gable recommended that the role be given to McDaniel; in any case, she went to her audition dressed in"
"prominently in the program. For her performance as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), and scoffs at Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first black American to win an Oscar. She was the first black American to have been nominated. ""I loved Mammy,"" McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character. ""I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plantation not unlike Tara."" Her role in ""Gone with the Wind"" had alarmed some whites in the South;"
"one film. Garbo received her nomination for her work in both ""Anna Christie"" and ""Romance"". She lost out to Irving Thalberg's wife, Norma Shearer, who won for ""The Divorcee"". In 1937, Garbo was nominated for ""Camille"", but Luise Rainer won for ""The Good Earth"". Finally, in 1939, Garbo was nominated for ""Ninotchka"", but again came away empty-handed. ""Gone With the Wind"" swept the major awards, including Best Actress, which went to Vivien Leigh. She was awarded an Academy Honorary Award ""for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances"" in 1954. She did not show up at the ceremony, and the statuette"
"at the age of 70 on September 3, 1980. Barbara O'Neil Barbara O'Neil (July 17, 1910 – September 3, 1980) was an American film and stage actress. She appeared in the film ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ""All This, and Heaven Too"" (1940). O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Barbara (née Blackman; 1880-1963) and David O'Neil, a businessman and poet. Her mother was a socialite and suffragist. She spent her childhood mostly in Europe and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her"
"Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918) Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film ""Gone With the Wind"" as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film ""Lifeboat"". Mary B. ""Bebe"" Anderson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Howard College (now Samford University). Her younger brother James Anderson (1921–1969) was also an actor, best known as Bob Ewell in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"""
"to share screen time with Leigh in each of her Oscar-winning performances. Kuhn left film business in 1957 and later worked for American Airlines and the Boston airport in administrative positions until his retirement. He now regularly visits film festivals dealing with his old films. As of 2018, Kuhn, along with Olivia de Havilland (who portrayed his mother, Melanie Wilkes), is one of the last two surviving credited cast members from ""Gone with the Wind"". Patrick Curtis is also a survivor, although his part of Melanie's infant newborn son is uncredited. Kuhn currently lives in Naples, Florida and volunteers four"
"""West of Tombstone"" (1942) and ""The Man Who Returned to Life"" (1942). In the 1960s she appeared in a supporting role in the film ""Voyage to the End of the Universe"" (1964) and played Ruth Collier in the episode ""Boomerang"" of the television series ""The F.B.I."". Marcella Martin was married three times and died in 1986 at the age of 70 years. She is buried at Saint Marys Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois. Marcella Martin Marcella Martin (June 5, 1916 – October 31, 1986) was an American actress, remembered for her role as Cathleen Calvert in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939)."
"subtle performance effectively presents this character of selfless love and quiet strength in a way that keeps her vital and interesting throughout the film. ""Gone with the Wind"" had its world premiere in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939, and was well received. Frank S. Nugent of ""The Times"" wrote that deHavilland's Melanie ""is a gracious, dignified, tender gem of characterization"", and John C. Flinn, Sr., in ""Variety"" called her ""a standout"". The film won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and deHavilland received her first nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Within days of completing her work in ""Gone with"
"Josephine Hutchinson Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 – June 4, 1998) was an American actress. She acted in several theater plays and films. Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in ""Gone with the Wind"". Through her mother's connections, Hutchinson made her film debut at the age of 13 in ""The Little Princess"" (1917), starring Mary Pickford. She later attended the Cornish School—now Cornish College of the Arts—in Seattle, receiving a diploma in 1929. She moved to New York City, where she began acting in theater."
"Kuhn and Olivia de Havilland, who played the roles of Beau Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton, respectively. She is often confused with the stage actress Mary Anderson (1859–1940) or the silent film actress Mary Anderson (1897–1986). Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918) Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film ""Gone With the Wind"" as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film ""Lifeboat"". Mary B. ""Bebe"""
"owned by Doris Day’s husband, Martin Melcher. Although the film was originally titled ""Pillow Talk"", according to a February 2, 1959 “Rambling Reporter” item in ""The Hollywood Reporter"", the title “displeased” the PCA, and was changed to ""Any Way the Wind Blows"". In August 1959, however, the original title was reinstated. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Doris Day), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Thelma Ritter), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (Richard H. Riedel, Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt) and Best Music, Scoring of"
"Wind"", was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. Her Oscar for her role in ""Gone With the Wind"" was criticized by some since she won it playing the role of a slave. Though she generally avoided politics, she became Chairwoman of the Hollywood Victory Committee's Negro Division. One of the most successful projects of the Hollywood Victory Committee was the organization of the Hollywood Victory Caravan in 1942. During a three-week cross country rail tour, performers such as Laurel and Hardy, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Gary Grant, Desi Arnaz and Bob Hope participated in performances and rallies that"
"at the outset of the Russian Revolution. She briefly performed in Japan before returning to the United States. She became a character actress and singer on the Broadway stage. Her credits include ""Porgy"", ""Stevedore"", ""Porgy and Bess"", ""Mamba's Daughters"" and ""Anna Lucasta"". Although Harvey made a screen test for the role of Mammy in ""Gone With the Wind"" (1939), Hattie McDaniel won the role. Harvey's screen test survives today and a portion can be glimpsed in the documentary """" (1988). Harvey died February 17, 1952, aged 69. Georgette Harvey Georgette Harvey (1882–1952) was an American singer and actress. She is"
"from ""The Wizard of Oz"". As the evening progressed, ""Gone with the Wind"" won the majority of awards, and Bob Hope remarked to David O. Selznick, ""David, you should have brought roller skates"". Making a speech, Selznick paused to extend praise and gratitude to Olivia de Havilland, a ""Best Supporting Actress"" nominee, and made it clear in his speech he knew she had not won. Fay Bainter presented the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, prefacing her presentation of the latter award with the knowing comment, ""It is a tribute to a country where people are free to honor"
"by , the type awarded to all Best Supporting Actors and Actresses at that time. She and her escort were required to sit at a segregated table for two at the far wall of the room; her white agent, William Meiklejohn, sat at the same table. The hotel had a strict no-blacks policy, but allowed McDaniel in as a favor. ""Gone with the Wind"" won eight Academy Awards. It was later named by the American Film Institute (AFI) as number four among the top 100 American films of all time in the 1998 ranking and number six in the 2007"
"Alicia Rhett Mary Alicia Rhett (February 1, 1915 – January 3, 2014) was an American actress and portrait painter who is best remembered for her role as India Wilkes in the 1939 film ""Gone with the Wind"". At the time of her death, Rhett was one of the oldest surviving credited cast members of the movie, the only others being Olivia de Havilland (born July 1, 1916), who played India's sister-in-law Melanie Wilkes, Mary Anderson (born April 3, 1918; died April 6, 2014), who played Maybelle Merriweather, and Mickey Kuhn (born September 21, 1932) who played Beau Wilkes. Rhett was"
"the film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and eclipsed ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The Sound of Music soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award and is the longest-running ""Billboard Magazine"" Top 10 album in history at 109 weeks. Returning to television, Cartwright played Penny Robinson in the TV series ""Lost in Space"" (1965–68). She made appearances on several TV shows, including ""My Three Sons"", ""Adam-12"", and ""The Love Boat"". She was also cast in the television movies ""Scout's Honor"""
"Wind"". AMPAS presented Academy Awards of Merit in twenty categories. Nominees for each award are listed below; award winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Academy Honorary Awards were presented to: The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented to David O. Selznick. The Academy Juvenile Award was presented to Judy Garland for ""The Wizard of Oz"". The following twenty-three films received multiple nominations: The following three films received multiple awards: Prior to the announcement of nominations, ""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"" and ""Gone with the Wind"" were the two films most widely tipped to receive a significant number"
"years old. She is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery. Juanita Moore Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She was the fifth African American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category at a time when only a single African American, Hattie McDaniel in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), had won an Oscar. Her most famous role was as Annie Johnson in the movie ""Imitation of Life"" (1959). Juanita Moore was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Ella (née"
"Barbara O'Neil Barbara O'Neil (July 17, 1910 – September 3, 1980) was an American film and stage actress. She appeared in the film ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ""All This, and Heaven Too"" (1940). O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Barbara (née Blackman; 1880-1963) and David O'Neil, a businessman and poet. Her mother was a socialite and suffragist. She spent her childhood mostly in Europe and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her maternal grandmother was Carrie Horton Blackman, a successful portrait"
"Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh (; born Vivian Mary Hartley, and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 19138 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her iconic performances as Scarlett O'Hara in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of ""Tovarich"" (1963). After completing her drama school education, Leigh"
"15, 1939, Atlanta hosted the premiere of ""Gone with the Wind"", the epic film based on the best-selling novel by Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell. The gala event at Loew's Grand Theatre was attended by the film's legendary producer, David O. Selznick, and the film's stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland, but Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel, an African American actress, was barred from the event due to racial segregation laws and policies. Atlanta played a vital role in the Allied effort during World War II due to the city's war-related manufacturing companies, railroad network and military bases, leading to"
"actors (Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale) are very good, but they get blown off the screen by Melissa Leo, who plays their mother, Alice Ward. Leo's Oscar-worthy portrayal of Alice as a master manipulator goes beyond acting to a total transformation."" Roger Ebert referred to it as a ""teeth-gratingly brilliant performance."" Leo and several of the film's actors including her co-star Amy Adams and Bale were nominated. For her performance Leo received several awards, including the Golden Globe, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle, Screen Actors Guild and culminating in her winning the Academy Award for"
"Vivien Leigh in ""Gone with the Wind"". Max Steiner, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for both this and ""Gone with the Wind"", lost to Herbert Stothart for ""The Wizard of Oz"". The film itself lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to ""Gone with the Wind"". ""The New York Times"" named ""Dark Victory"" as one of the ""10 Best Films of 1939"", as did ""Film Daily"", and the ""National Board of Review"" picked both Bette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald for Best Acting that year. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these"
"flames. McQueen donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will. Butterfly McQueen Remembered by Stephen Bourne 2008 Butterfly McQueen Thelma ""Butterfly"" McQueen (January 7, 1911December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film ""Gone with the Wind"". She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. Often typecast as a maid, she said: ""I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you"
"Bones"" (1958). Anderson was married to Leonard M. Behrens from 1940 to 1950. Her second marriage was to cinematographer Leon Shamroy from 1953 until his death in 1974. They had one child, Anderson Alexander Shamroy, who died July 1, 1956 at the age of two months. Mary Anderson died on April 6, 2014 in Burbank, California, of a stroke, three days after her 96th birthday. She was under hospice care and died in a condo in Toluca Lake that she shared with her long-time companion, Gordon Carnon. Her death left two surviving credited ""Gone With the Wind"" cast members, Mickey"
"She was cremated and her ashes given to her daughter. Ann Rutherford Therese Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012) was a Canadian-American actress in film, radio, and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series, and as one of Scarlett O'Hara's sisters in the film ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). Rutherford was born on November 2, 1917, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to John Rutherford and Lucille (née Mansfield; 1890–1981)Rutherford. Rutherford's mother was a silent film actress, and her father was"
"on November 15, 1996 at age 86. Lila Finn Lila Finn (born Lila Shanley; November 28, 1909 - November 15, 1996) was an American actress and stunt woman who performed in films for almost six decades and was known for such films as ""Gone with the Wind"", ""It's a Wonderful Life"", ""Blazing Saddles"", ""The Goonies"", ""Drum"", ""The Towering Inferno"", ""Suburban Commando"", """" and ""The Poseidon Adventure"". Finn was also an athlete who competed on the U.S. women's volleyball team from 1955 to 1960. At the age 50 Finn was awarded a silver medal in the 1959 Pan American Games in"
"Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler."