Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel

  • Born: 1893-6-10
  • Birthplace: Kansas
  • Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
  • Profession: actor
  • Nationality: America
  • Representative Works: Gone with the Wind, "Alice Adam", etc.
  • Hattie McDaniel (Hattie McDaniel, 1895-1952), was born in Kansas, an American actor.
    She is the first black actor to win Oscars . Harty has participated in more than 90 movies throughout his life. Together with other black actors, Harty has been fighting racial discrimination in Hollywood since the 1940s.
    In 1939, producer Selznick used Harty as Scarlett's nanny Margarita in " Gone with the Wind " . Harty injected his unique sense of humor into this image, and the lines were perfectly read, and they worked with Scarlett's actor Vivian Mary Hartley in a tacit understanding, like green leaves supporting red flowers, and the two won both awards. [1] 

    Early Experience

    Harty was born in Kansas in 1895. He performed on stage early and belonged to the type of character actor . At the age of 15, he won a medal in theatrical performance and joined the band as an acoustic band member. He was the first black person to broadcast a song on American radio.
    Harty played on stage in his early years, was also a singer in an acoustic band, and was the first African-American female singer to be broadcast on the radio.

    Performing Experience

    Since 1931, she entered the film industry, but the film company always assigned her to play the role of a nanny or servant with only two or three lines. The first person to discover Harty’s acting talent was director George Stevens. He asked her to play the role of a chef in "Alice Adam" starring Katharine Houghton Hepburn . With his own ideas and explanations, Harty made a unique design for the character and received a very good comedy effect. Thanks to Stevens' support, Harty quickly became one of the most popular black movie stars.
    Since then, Harty's image as a nanny or servant has been continuously consolidated. Finally in 1939, she starred as the nurse Margarita in the classic masterpiece " Gone with the Wind ", with her unique sense of humor and perfectionIn this superstar-studded movie, it shines and wins Oscars with the tacit cooperation with the heroine Vivian Mary Hartley .
    Harty appeared in the same role as a black nanny in almost all her life, but she paid great attention to helping her racially improve her image. She once said: "I would rather play a maid rather than be a maid." .
    In 1939, the producer Selznick used Harty as Scarlett’s nanny Margarita in " Gone with the Wind. " Harty injected her unique sense of humor into this image. His lines were perfect, and he said Vivian Mary Hartley , the actor of the beauties, cooperated with each other tacitly, as if the green leaves helped the safflower, and the two won both awards. Due to the success of Margarita's role, Harty later monopolized almost all the black nanny roles on the screen. In many films, you can see her fat, docile, and rapportant image. But from the mid-1940s, her artistic career began to decline. In 1952. Just as a new group of black movie stars emerged, Harty died suddenly of breast cancer .

    Personal Life

    In reality, Harty’s marriage was unfortunate. Her first husband was shot and killed shortly after the wedding. The second marriage lasted less than a year, while the fourth marriage lasted only four months. Harty's temperament is cheerful and gentle, and the actors who have worked with her love and respect her. Due to too much repetition of herself, her artistic career began to decline in the mid-1940s until she died of illness in 1952.

    Character Evaluation

    Harty is the first black actor to win the Oscar history. Although there were many black actors before this, there were not even nominated black actors. And the shameless Harty is able to win this beauty, it must be said that it is herDue to superiority.
    Extended Reading
    • Lola 2022-10-10 22:21:56

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