Hattie McDaniel: Talent, Drive, Audacity, Agency

Published On

August 16 2022

Author

Donald Bogle

Hattie McDaniel at age, eighteen, ca. 1911. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library; Hattie and Sam McDaniel Collection
Jean Harlow and Hattie McDaniel in Saratoga (1937), production still. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library.
Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library; Hattie and Sam McDaniel Collection
production still. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library; Hattie and Sam McDaniel Collection
Hattie McDaniel (partially visible at lower edge) and Ferdinand Yober, at the banquet for the 12th Academy Awards, Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, 1940. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library.
Hattie McDaniel and her brother Sam in The Great Lie (1941), publicity still. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library.