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Hattie McDaniel pushed boundaries ... Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel. In 1939, McDaniel was cast as Mammy, Scarlett O’Hara’s enslaved maid in Gone with the Wind, which became a career ...

"His friends never saw him." The family called the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday morning to report Oscar missing. LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division took over the investigation two ...

He told personal stories about his family, giving some insight into McDaniel's historic Oscar win, and presented a new perspective to her rise to fame. “When people talk about Hattie McDaniel ...

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She also shared the dress was inspired by Hattie McDaniel, the first Black person, and first Black actress, to win an Oscar ... Well today there’s nothing to be said. She is smiling, beaming ...