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Hot on the heels of their 1986 non-spoof comedy hit Ruthless People, the team locked down a two-year deal with Paramount Pictures. That deal launched with a bang thanks to The Naked Gun, based on ...

But something was missing. "Sam Pick's patrons were nice to me, but they kept asking me one question that disturbed me — 'Why don't you go to Hollywood and get in the movies?'" McDaniel wrote in ...

Before Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her home in Colorado.

Hattie McDaniel interspersed her travels with the Morrison orchestra with venues elsewhere, since star billing eluded the majority of African American performers and everyone took work wherever they ...

THE DICHOTOMY OF Hattie McDaniel marks the third film release from theatrical impresario Vincent Victoria. It shows his maturing skill at making films and is a definite technical leap from ...

In 1940, Wichita native Hattie McDaniel became the first Black performer to win an Oscar. This weekend, a Wichita event recognized her work to change the representation of Black actors in Hollywood.

Houston Matters Hattie McDaniel made history with her Oscar win – but she also had to sit in the back of the room Author ReShonda Tate explores what happened next for the actress in “The Queen ...

How the Academy and Hattie McDaniel's family restored her legacy decades after her award went missing: 'It shows that she's still relevant. That she accomplished a lot in her career to have a vast ...

Actress Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind" on this day in history, February 29, 1940.

Actress Hattie McDaniel (left) and Fay Bainter celebrate McDaniel’s groundbreaking 1940 Oscar win, which marked her as the first Black person to ever receive this prestigious award. Credit: AP Photo ...