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Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 – October 26,
1952) was an United States|American singer and
actor|actress.

Born in Wichita, Kansas|Wichita, Kansas, she made
her first appearance in film|motion pictures in
1932 in film|1932. She spent much of her
twenty-year career playing maids, mainly owing to
the paucity of roles available to African American
actresses. It was one such role, that of Mammy in
Gone With the Wind (1939 in film|1939), opposite
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, that she won the
Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress on
February 29, 1940, making her the first African
American performer to win an Oscar.

Hattie McDaniel died at age fifty-seven in the
hospital on the grounds of the Motion Picture &
Television Country House and Hospital|Motion
Picture House in Woodland Hills,
California|Woodland Hills. It was her wish to be
buried in the Hollywood cemetery on Santa Monica
Boulevard in Hollywood, California|Hollywood,
along with her fellow movie stars, but the owner,
Jack Roth, refused to allow her to be interred
there because she was Black. She is interred in
Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles,
California|Los Angeles.
In 1999, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery,
who had renamed it Hollywood Forever Cemetery,
wanted to right the wrong and have Miss McDaniel
interred in the cemetery. Her family did not want
to disturb her remains after all that time and
declined the offer. Hollywood Forever then did the
next best thing and built a cenotaph memorial on
the lawn overlooking the lake in honor of
McDaniel. It is one of the most popular sites for
visitors to the cemetery.

Hattie McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one for her
contributions to radio programming|radio at 6933
Hollywood Boulevard, and one for motion pictures
at 1719 Vine Street.

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