Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel

June 10, 1893

Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 - October 26, 1952) was an American actress whose portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black person to win an Academy Award. After working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie M…

Known For

19 titles
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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

1939 · 3h 58m · Movie

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

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Song of the South

Song of the South

1946 · 1h 34m · Movie

The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.

6.9
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They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On

1941 · 2h 22m · Movie

A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

7.2
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Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus

1932 · 1h 33m · Movie

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

7.1
5
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

1944 · 2h 57m · Movie

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.

7.5
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Alice Adams

Alice Adams

1935 · 1h 39m · Movie

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

6.9
7
The Great Lie

The Great Lie

1941 · 1h 48m · Movie

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

7.0
8
Carefree

Carefree

1938 · 1h 23m · Movie

A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.

7.0
9
Show Boat

Show Boat

1936 · 1h 53m · Movie

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

7.4
10
The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton

1938 · 1h 20m · Movie

After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

6.7
11
Judge Priest

Judge Priest

1934 · 1h 20m · Movie

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

6.2
12
The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel

1935 · 1h 21m · Movie

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.

7.0
13
Saratoga

Saratoga

1937 · 1h 32m · Movie

After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.

6.5
14
George Washington Slept Here

George Washington Slept Here

1942 · 1h 33m · Movie

When Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovat...

6.9
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The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour

1938 · 1h 16m · Movie

A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

6.4
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The Big Wheel

The Big Wheel

1949 · 1h 32m · Movie

A brash young midget car race driver lives in the shadow of his famous father, a drunken womanizer, who was killed in an accident years earlier.

5.6
17
The Flame

The Flame

1947 · 1h 37m · Movie

A woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.

6.5
18
High Tension

High Tension

1936 · 1h 3m · Movie

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

5.6
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Mickey

Mickey

1948 · 1h 27m · Movie

Young girl is constantly getting into trouble and embarrassing her father, who finally puts his foot down.

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