Hattie McDaniel At the 1939 Oscars
				
				
						 Caption: Hattie McDaniel At the 1939 Oscars
																																				
						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...