Still of Shirley Temple, Hattie McDaniel and Evelyn Venable in The Little Colonel (1935)
Caption: Still of Shirley Temple, Hattie McDaniel and Evelyn Venable in The Little Colonel (1935)
Actress, Soundtrack
Born: June 10, 1895
Star sign: Gemini
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Known for: Gone with the Wind (1939), Song of the South (1946), Since You Went Away (1944), The Great Lie (1941)
Source: IMDB
After working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George Stevens and aided and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn...