“Honoring Hattie McDaniel: Past, Present and Future of Representation in Media Arts,” at the 22nd annual Tallgrass Film Festival will include a film retrospective, panel discussions and a ...

Hattie McDaniel, who once lived in Fort Collins, made history as the first Black actor to win an Academy Award. ... his great-granduncle Sam and his great-grandaunt Hattie. ...

It's been 75 years since Hattie McDaniel won for 'Gone With the Wind,' accepting her award at the Ambassador's Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Oscar’s First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a ...

I had no idea at the time that those individuals were my aunt (Hattie McDaniel), my uncle (Sam McDaniel), and great-grandmother (Etta McDaniel Goff).

Actress Hattie McDaniel in a promotional photo from 1939, the same year that “Gone With the Wind” premiered, ... so she took a job as a bathroom attendant at Sam Pick’s club in Milwaukee.

When Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for best supporting actress on Feb. 29, ... Sam McDaniel, her brother, was also an actor, which opened the door for Hattie in her early career.

Hattie McDaniel died on October 26, 1952, and is honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her Academy Award, left in her will to Howard University, has been missing since the 1960s ...

The daughter of a former slave, McDaniel was born in Kansas in 1893; some sources say she was born in 1895, but Jill Watts' first-rate, painstakingly researched biography "Hattie McDaniel: Black ...