Hattie McDaniel changed history with her Oscar for 'Gone With the Wind'. It elevated her to a symbol of racial progress — but made her a pariah to much of Black America.
sat together, McDaniel, wearing a blue gown and gardenias in her hair, was seated at a separate table with her date. After her name was announced as Best Supporting Actress, she rose to receive the plaque given to all supporting-actor winners at the time, eschewed the speech Selznick had prepared for her, and delivered one she'd written with the help of Black writer Ruby Berkley Goodwin, a close friend.
It was a historic moment, but it would take nearly a quarter century before Oscar crowned another Black actor, when. McDaniel's own career floundered. Black audiences criticized her for perpetuating negative stereotypes, and white filmmakers cast her only in domestic-servant roles.
"She's an artist who's been resisting white domination with performance — up until she becomes involved in white show business," says historian Jill Watts, author of the biography, which was recently optioned to be made into a film. "If you watch those performances, she's straitjacketed [by the writing], but she's trying to move her way out of that."
Her will made two requests: for her body to be buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and for her Oscar to be given to Howard University. The cemetery refused her burial because of her race, and she was instead laid to rest at the nearby Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.
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