At 16, McDaniel said goodbye to school and spent the next decade performing across the Midwest. CBS via Getty She landed her first major role in 1935, appearing alongside Shirley Temple in The ...

Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson dancing together "The Little Colonel" in 1935 was a landmark moment for racial integration in cinema. ... Actress Hattie McDaniel is shown with the statuette ...

Hattie McDaniel made history by being the first Black actor to win an Academy ... where she launched her film career as Mom Beck in "The Little Colonel," starring the child actress Shirley Temple.

When Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1940 for her role as “Mammy” in the epic movie "Gone with the ... Reports say she was good friends with Shirley Temple.

Hattie McDaniel was born in 1893 to formerly-enslaved parents in Wichita, ... Shirley Temple, Evelyn Venable, and Hattie McDaniel in a scene from the movie "The Little Colonel." ...

Hattie McDaniel made history by being the first Black actor to win an Academy ... where she launched her film career as Mom Beck in "The Little Colonel," starring the child actress Shirley Temple.

Her first big break was playing a servant in the 1935 Shirley Temple movie "The Little Colonel," and, soon, McDaniel became one of the most familiar African-American actors in the country.

Portrait of Hattie McDaniel.Tracy A Woodward/The Washington Post via Getty Images Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in 'Gone with the Wind,' became the first Black person to win an Oscar in 1940 ...

Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win an Academy Award for 1939’s Gone With the Wind, ... Shirley Temple; THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day.

In 1940, Gone With The Wind won 10 Academy Awards, including a historic one for Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win an Oscar. Now there's a Hattie McDaniel biopic in the works ...

When Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for best supporting actress on Feb. 29, 1940, for her role as “Mammy” in the epic Civil War movie “Gone with the Wind,” she was already one of ...