Academy Conversations: Hattie McDaniel's Oscar
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2024
- Hattie McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar for her supporting role as Mammy in the 1939 film GONE WITH THE WIND.
Shortly before her death from breast cancer in 1952, she asked that the Oscar be moved from her home to Howard University in Washington, but her statuette disappeared. Now, more than 50 years later, her request was honored when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences replaced the award.
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It's interesting how many of her own race criticized her for "playing a maid" and winning for "playing a maid." She was a smart actress, and as she told them, "I'd rather PLAY a maid in life than have to be one !"
And that narrative ignored how progressive and subversive Mammy was; a slave who freely gave her opinion and spoke up to the white people around her to their faces? Without fear of repercussions? And one of the first mainstream portrayals of African Americans as fully emotional human beings and not a caricature to boot. An extraordinary achievement.
@@lonellfletcher You forgot to write "ex-slave"
That scene on stairs with Melanie was brilliant. I loved her. For that time she did well for herself. She was a classy woman. Clark Gable was going to boycott the Atlanta premiere but Hattie encouraged him to go. He went to her house almost every Sunday. They were great friends.
That is so wonderful!! 🥺❤
Watching her scenes with Vivian Leigh, you can argue she was playing a mother.
I don’t know why I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Miss Hattie. It’s like I knew her. Seemed like such a sweet lady.
Because it was a segregated time. She broke time barriers with her performance. She broke race barriers with her performances
Hattie McDaniel is unique, she did the most UNMATCHABLE performance ever. For the rest, "It ain't fitting! It just ain't fitting"...
Hattie McDaniel also played the role of Aunt Tempy in the 1946 Disney film, Song of the South, along with James Baskett, who also won an Academy Award for his role as Uncle Remus.
Miss Hattie was an amazing actress.
Hattie McDaniel was indeed a wonderful actress, a light of brilliance shone in most of her performances - no one could do much with some tof the roles she was offered - but so many others were lit with humor, pathos, wisdom and joy. She was a delight - aside from her winning part in GWTW, there was Alice Adams and laugh out loud sequences; the mother of the son accused of a crime by Bette Davis for a crime the Bette Davis herself committed; Stanwyck's maid who douses Fonda with a pitcher of water in the Mad Miss Manton; Jean Harlow's maid or pal in China Seas; in the Thank Your Lucky Stars sequence when she sang Ice Cold Katy; Showboat with Paul Robeson and on and on in so many movies in which she just warmed your heart. She always made me happy whenever and wherever she strutted her stuff. This little moment with Rashaad and Stewart did little justice to the great lady. It seemed a bit choppy and not edited well.
Monumental 🎉 congratulations 🎉 Shabbat 💞 Amen
I am glad that Hattie McDaniel's Oscar was restored and returned to where she wanted it.
I am glad Phylicia Rashad opened up who Hattie McDaniel was to Howard University and who she was outside of the roles she portrayed.
While she did the best with industry racism reducing her to stereotype, she also helped form the Negro Actor's Guild, which fought for better representation in mainstream film for Black people and fought for equity in insurance and travel arrangements for Black talent. She was the first Black woman to sing on national radio, helped form a performing arts troupe for Black soldiers in World War II with Lena Horne, Louise Beavers, and Bette Davis. She fought redlining with a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court to de-legitimize it so she can live where she wanted to in California, and she looked out for Black actors in Hollywood laying the foundations for continual support within the community today.
Hattie McDaniel was an extraordinary person who deserves more than just the same reduction people give her due to the stereotype industry racism forced her to portray, and is more than just that quote racists use to justify their preference for subserviant Black people. Her historical reality and legacy deserves a coming home.
How do they know she wanted her Oscar there?
@@horses22059 It was left in her will.
The plaque was there. I think much is being talked about to stir up trouble.
@horses22059 I don't know why you are asking these questions. Do you think her Oscar belongs in the Academy museum and not Howard University?
@@horses22059 Why do you think that?
Hattie McDaniel was a maven. 🎞️
Getting nominated for an Oscar & winning an Oscar is now no longer worth it. The Oscar has been reduced to a participation trophy symbolically made of glass or plastic.
You wish you could click the 'like' button more than once on some videos
It’s about time TCM did a tribute that was hosted and narrated by black women
The road to progress is not a simple one and involves detours and missteps. I can appreciate both points of view. It's unfortunate and frustrating - however for a mainstream film in 1939 to give such prominence and dignity to a black character, however difficult a pill to swallow in a historical movie, Hattie McDaniel's performance matches the 'leads' in every scene and draws attention to the clichéd portrayal of the other black characters in the film mostly made to look as idiots or childish (I know the actress who played Prissy rightfully found it demeaning). GWTW is idealised, being classic era Hollywood, it's highly problematic, although it's not as unconscionable as Song of the South. The real message hidden in the technicolor and romance is those who fail to change flounder, those who do, have a chance, although this is lost on many viewers. It's true - mammy was Scarlett's real mother. For all it's 'white saviour' trope & challenges (I mean it was made in the 21st century.... Octavia won an Oscar and went back to TV roles, Viola bit parts in film) 'the help' did at least point this out. Mercifully both actresses have now received recognition and roles of due worth to their outstanding talent. It took the entertainment model to change for this to come around. For all it's flaws the dissemination of information about culture the internet allows has speeded up the fight for change, even as the rightwing reactionaries seek to build their walls thicker by weaponising the law, seeking autocratcy and sowing lies and fear, and setting one group against another so our gaze is not directed at them but enough of my diatribe lol
Sorry to see this apologist still spewing in a public forum