Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director and President of the Academy Museum Jacqueline Stewart and McDaniel's great-grandnephew Kevin John Goff take EW behind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hattie McDaniel arrived at her audition for the role of Gone With the Wind’s Mammy wearing a maid’s uniform. It wasn’t a costume — ...

Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her ...

DENVER — Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor to win an Oscar, started her career path to celebrity stardom in Colorado. Her family moved to Fort Collins in the early 1900s and then to Denver, where ...

On February 29, 1940, at the 12th Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel made history by becoming the first African American to receive an Oscar. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing "Mammy" ...

At the Oscars ceremony in 1940, African-American actress Hattie McDaniel was seated at a segregated table on the far side of the room at the Ambassador Hotel. A great distance from the table where her ...

Hattie McDaniel proclaimed her Academy Award for playing Mammy in Gone With the Wind to be a “beacon” for her future. The first Black actor to win an Oscar, she remained the only woman to do so for 51 ...