Hattie McDaniel Wins Oscar

[@Lees212]

A pure example of class, dignity, strength, insurance, and guts. Bravo Hattie. You earned your wings

[@do9138]

A gracious lady who stood proudly and relied on the strength of her works and talents to carry her through. Mammy is the strongest, most intelligent character in both the book and the film, and Ms. McDaniel was perfect in the role. POC even when they were raised as slaves and denied education could be the wisest and strongest people in a situation.

[@teresadbrownbrown3785]

Amen

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@UziDoesIt8818]

@D O Exactly. People don't need school to be intelligent. Most of what we learn comes from life experience. I love Hattie, and as a white person, if I had been at the Oscar's party for GWTW I would have had her seated in with everyone else whether they liked it or not.

[@UziDoesIt8818]

Even Clark Gable didn't like the fact that people treated African Americans like they weren't human beings.

[@jamie448]

God bless you Hattie McDaniel wish you were still here with us today

[@blondeboyworld]

She'd be 128 years old this year. But yes I wish she had lived a lot longer.

[@carlaharker9081]

Or, I meant to put this message in another one. I made an error.

[@Blueberry40]

It's a shame the way she was treated. She deserved better. Her and her family. Rest peacefully Hattie.

[@DippyHippie]

@@Adriana-vp1rm are you nuts?

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@PandaNFriends23]

"I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race." Oh, sweet heart. Damn that environment where someone feels that urge so strongly, anxiety and passion clutched, over such a subject. That cut my heart in just the way it probably needed to. She should have been treated with proper respect and kindness within her lifetime. To say "bless her", for me personally, just ... feels hollow. She's no longer with us, that precious consciousness that made up who she was is gone. Definitely an inspiration to treat others properly during that time that most matters; When they're alive to be influenced by one's kindness.

[@vivianstidham9596]

I am a white lady and I so look forward to Heaven where there is NO RACISM. Ms. Hattie was a gracious wonderful actress. Actresses today could learn a lot from her. Humility for one! She is my favorite actress! Thank you Ms. Hattie!!

[@paulkenneally789]

You are totally correct . So dignified, She was and always will be a credit, not only to her race, but also to humanity. Rgds from England

[@do9138]

I tend to agree that it isn't enough to say, but really there aren't words to describe how much we regret that people like her faced so much discrimination. Humans didn't give her the respect she deserved, so all we can do is ask God to bless her in heaven and to teach us how to do better.

[@dfredankey]

@@vivianstidham9596 I feel like if we could all get along on earth this would be heaven

[@teresadbrownbrown3785]

Agree

[@lubystkaolamonola529]

That is why removing "Gone with the Wind" from the history is removing people like Hattie McDaniels from the history. Those who forget the history will repeat it.

[@lovesthesun]

A civil war is looming in the United States Watch Gone With the Wind to see how terrible it is for their side that loses Did you ever have a chance this chance to watch the sequel to Gone with the Wind? It was called... Break the wind

[@lavoshakern]

Who's removing "Gone With the Wind" from history?

[@death2pc]

But it feels SO good, SO righteous to the ruthless, vicious LEFT to do just that !

[@baymaxc1647]

@@lavoshakern the loons on the Left of course! Liberalism is a serious mental disorder

[@valuecalc]

@@baymaxc1647, it'll wreck everyone if left unchecked.

[@vicoprofin]

Hattie McDaniel was one heck of a classy lady to say “God bless you” in spite of the circumstances. And those gardenias… no diamonds, emeralds, rubies, or sapphires necessary

[@do9138]

McDaniel was a class act start to finish. They gave her a seat way in the back in the corner at the Oscars, and when she won, she still said "God bless you." I agree about the gardenias. Her beauty shines in her face, and jewels would dull in comparison.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@carlaharker9081]

She was the only one in Gone With the Wind that was completely without flaws. This has always been my favorite movie. I loved it when she finally wore her red slip that Rhett gave her..I loved her so much in this movie. Every time she said a word or even gave one of her looks, it was definitely important. I grew up in Atlanta a long time ago and I look forward to meeting her when I get to heaven. I think her mother kind of spoiled Scarlet. Her dad did a little. But while she loved Scarlet, she never ever spoiled her.. She was positively awesome in this movie.

[@paulrichards6894]

never watched the film but i googled her and she couldn't go to the premiere because it was a whites-only theatre....like to think we have moved on from that but i am not that sure....seemed a fantastic lady but she died young at 59

[@eleazarruoch576]

Her and Melanie were certainly the only normal and Likable people in the movie.

[@lovesthesun]

I certainly enjoyed the sequel to Gone with the Wind It's a little-known... It's called... Break the wind!!

[@eleazarruoch576]

@@lovesthesun It's funny you say that. There is a sequel to Gone With the Wind. It is called, Scarlett.

[@lovesthesun]

@@eleazarruoch576 thanks for that info... I didn't know that Is it with the same cast as the original Gone with the Wind?

[@ER-uy7ct]

Yes girl! I teach inner city and first generation African children. I am proud of the students I serve. I hope each and everyone of them becomes a "first". Like in the movie Hidden Figures. Where Janelle Monae's charachter tells the judge that she has jo choice but to be the first. Hattie McDaniel had no choice but to be the first. And we are all the better for it. Thank you Hattie, for paving the way for my students.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@franci.f.]

She seems to me to be one of those rare people who have a genuine heart and yet work miracles like winning an Oscar. Her speech is short but very touching to me. Rather than censoring films already made, we should take advantage of our chance of telling other, new stories never told before. Rather than erasing we should add ,so that the truth is told from different perspectives and history can be better disclosed in its complexity.

[@do9138]

I agree. The older works also give us an opportunity to discuss what was wrong with our thinking. GWTW is a great example, and Mammy makes that contribution. It is easy to say, "The wisest character in the novel was considered an inferior. Let's talk about how our doing that to real people by the thousands affected our culture." It's even better when we can add information about people like Ms. McDaniel and discuss her grace and dignity at the Oscars during an era when she could only sit way in the back in the corner because of her race. She wouldn't have been invited if she hadn't been nominated. Ms. McDaniel was a groundbreaking actress who opened the Oscars to POC as well as playing one of the most iconic roles in film.

[@franci.f.]

@@do9138 "The wisest character in the novel was considered an inferior" . In the course of my life I have often been angry at this idea, which has a Christian basis (Christ is put on the cross by the Romans although he is God on Earth and asks the Father to forgive them because they do not know what they are doing) but can also be used to manipulate and convince people to suffer abuse. As the oldest daughter I was always told, tolerate what your sisters do to you because you are the wise one. It makes you angry to hear that and see it in a movie.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@santiagosantarge819]

That's heavy stuff . I wonder if they edited out the original crowd with mean faces. She was definitely a pioneer .

[@carlaharker9081]

Interesting thought about mean faces but I imagine there were only tears of joy when she won in that entire audience.

[@theunrealtimemm]

@@carlaharker9081 Oh, I rather doubt that. There were some ugly hearts among those pretty people, to be sure. Someone put her way in the back. Someone nearly forgot to invite her. And remember she could not attend the film's premiere.

[@trinaaiken9582]

why would they have edit in mean faces they probably all looked mean and had a dislike for her being there

[@santiagosantarge819]

@@trinaaiken9582 she looks like a nice person

[@trinaaiken9582]

@@santiagosantarge819 I’m sure she was very nice but that doesn’t stop people from being hateful or racist

[@jackspry9736]

RIP Hattie McDaniel (July 10, 1893 - October 26, 1952), aged 59 You will always be remembered as a legend.

[@steveskelley2553]

Her talent and spirit a true credit to her accomplishments.And embolden in time she shall preserve history in light of adverse sides.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@elizabethstephens8801]

Wow. This brings tears to my eyes🤗

[@centigradz2centigradz289]

Hattie was one classy lady. She didn't react negatively or give a speech on agenda. She spoke from her heart very eloquently. She showed more class than any activist out there in modern day.

[@trentrossdale638]

Exactly!!!

[@catmom1322]

I've read horror stories about how she was treated throughout the filming. "Colored" bathrooms, "Colored water fountains." Disgusting. And she beat the others anyway.

[@racourdav]

Hattie was one of the finest, funniest ACTORS to ever grace the screen. I think of all the very fine black actors who were trying to be a part of the "American Dream' back then and I simply cannot imagine the garbage, the humiliation, the ugly racism they had to endure. It's no picnic now--but we all know or can imagine the ugliness they experienced back then! She was so wonderful and gifted...James Cagney was the only "star" who showed up and paid his respects at her funeral. . He was a real 'gent", lol. Oh, and Hollywood Cemetery denied her wish to be buried there--it too was segregated...SMH! RIP dear Hattie!

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@kaidanlane5708]

Apparently Olivia de Havilland had a slight meltdown after losing the supporting actress award and ran off to the kitchen to cry. The wife of the dude who ran MGM was irritated that Olivia was acting that way and told her something along the lines of "Don't ruin this moment for Hattie by behaving like a child." Of course ODH would end up winning two best actress Oscars so all those tears were for naught.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@mildredmunoz7191]

Regarding her roles she said that she rather play a maid in a movie than be one in real life.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@valuecalc]

Simply amazing moments in Hollywood's amazing history.

[@valerietomsic8454]

awww...BLESS her heart! and HIS too!

[@zhakreayounes5883]

She was a honrouble gr8 person & actress.She donated money 2 Africa.

[@clankb2o5]

Very moving to listen to her speak

[@lollipupke4212]

Always as kid and later. Love to see her!

[@ardishorwich4601]

An incredible woman. Now they need to make a major motion picture biopic starring Octavia Spencer so she can win an Oscar for best actress in a leading role and bring it full circle. I’m sure Hattie would be pleased.

[@christinesentman5437]

Warriors are shunned yet the strength of the Warrior is what makes them powerful 👏

[@miuwagner350]

God bless you Mammy!!

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@Nunyabzinss]

Always be a credit to your race of humanity

[@colettenasielski8190]

God Bless You Haddie McDaniel R. I.P.

[@ashpasch6004]

What a beautiful lady she sets a good example for all of us here. Such Grace such Dignity. I don't know if I could done this in that era in time - behind the scenes often wonder how she was treated . I hope she was treated with respect and honor as she should have been.

[@Spud773]

What a lady!😍

[@bec_beastgaming1996]

She was amazing ❤️

[@nadiagaribaldi7870]

Preciosa,,,!!⭐🌹❤️

[@user-sx6xb5nq9l]

She play very important part in gone with wind also .

[@tomboyle7068]

Music will unite us. My American Words to beautiful Chinese melody kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4S2pGWNgsRnja8

[@alanashford9207]

Yes hatti....dignity!!!

[@jojoheartspaypay]

She was GREAT. everyone being interviewed for this...not so much.

[@nathangent6921]

What a shame.Your comment started out nice.

[@MrRichManGuy]

@@nathangent6921 I mean he's not entirely wrong. Whoopie Goldberg's a good actor but... well she's a little coo-coo nowadays

[@nathangent6921]

@@MrRichManGuy 🙂❤

[@do9138]

She was the host of the Oscars for several years. Why shouldn't she be in a documentary about the Oscars?

[@michellebiland5163]

Beautiful. 💞💞💞

[@bronxlords]

Her speech made me cry.

[@outermarker5801]

Will Smith has nothing on the segregationists in that room.

[@TheRealDarrylStrawberry]

The Ambassador Hotel (the venue for the Oscars that year) was White's Only and made Hattie sit in the corner by herself.

[@do9138]

True, and SOOO sad and sick. She was an incredible actor, and Mammy is the wisest character in the movie. I can't picture anyone else in that role, and the movie would have been pointless without Mammy. But we didn't show her the respect she deserved because 1) she was a HUMAN BEING and 2) she helped make that movie the success it was with her talent.

[@TheRealDarrylStrawberry]

@@do9138 Yea, agreed. Mammy is basically the architype for Oscar winning supporting roles. and without her or Pork or even Prissy, the movie would be a strange waste of time. One of my favorite little moment is when Pork is asking Scarlet about her financial situation because he over heard some talk about a $300 tax and Tara. Even Big Sam literally saves her life. Remove one black actor from that film and it absolutely doesnt work at all.

[@do9138]

@@TheRealDarrylStrawberry Yes, and I am so thankful for that. I have loved this movie since I was in fourth grade. As I matured, I grew concerned about liking it because it appears to support the racist Confederacy, so I watched it with careful attention to the African American actors, how wonderful they were, and how the entire plot would fall apart without them. When I learned McDaniel had won an Oscar, that made it a little better. I still hate the implication that slavery was ever acceptable. But I am glad that the movie helped make history for African American actors when McDaniel won an award she so richly earned. That isn't an entirely SAVING grace. But it helps mitigate the racism.

[@jmartin4204]

yes Hattie McDaniel was the first and Sydney Poitier was the second but it still has on record that Sydney Poitier was the first male of colour to win an oscar

[@gipsy9129]

I am not American. I don't live in America. What they have done to non-white people in the supposed major world power will never, ever enter my head. Gone with the Wind must be the best movie I've ever seen and actress Hattie McDaniel had one of the best-remembered and best-acted of the entire movie. God bless her and those who gave her that much deserved Oscar.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@lafredahendricks1232]

Rip Miss Hattie McDaniel

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@DippyHippie]

And she had to sit almost outside in the damn parking lot!

[@Holason89]

Nas made me know about Hattie Mcdoneils from his music on the hip-hop is dead album. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 God bless knowledgeable music cuz that's educative art

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@naomipatrao]

'There was a lot of white people in between!' Hahahahaha!!!

[@titidiz6343]

My favorite movie.

[@sonicinajarvauntedspeciali7245]

Amazing

[@sandraross4770]

Yeaaahhh ❤️❤️❤️

[@elizabethstephens8801]

Lilies of the Field is one of the best movies of all time gotta love the main actor (I forget his name)

[@MundoJuanci]

Sidney Poitier, he passed away a month ago 😞

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@trentrossdale638]

They put her in the back but she won. Things were changing and getting better even then. We most focus on the good but sadly we focus solely on the negative.

[@cynthiataylor8271]

Good for her

[@gotenhuggins270]

This is what max is talking about

[@sdlock83]

It's only Whoopi Goldberg possesses even a shred of dignity and self-respect that Hattie McDaniel had.

[@jmajesty79]

Agreed!

[@michaelpamintuan7855]

I look on her filmography and most of her roles are MAIDS. Such a disgrace to Hollywood for her race. Great thing she got an Oscar .

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@stanelle6145]

and people sit up here glorifying the oscars like its the highest pentacle one can reach.............The Oscar's ain't nothing but racist trash and mediocrity at best.

[@AZOMBIERYO]

Paul Mooney put it best "she came back as Oprah and got her money"

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@jamesolsen5353]

We are all just human beings.and all other humans are OK with me....

[@3lla04]

❤️

[@fabiancaius]

yay

[@vivianstidham9596]

What a great actress. She wanted to be a credit to her race. I don't think people even thought about her skin color when she was acting. Whoopi Goldberg needs to quit pulling out the race card so she will be a credit to her race. She needs to learn from her superior, Ms. Hattie. Now, she was a gracious lady. Take a lesson Whoopi, you have done a lot of damage to your career by YOUR MOUTH!!

[@paulkenneally789]

You are wrong, mate. Hattie and others were denied roles and honours . Simple facts of Hollywood discrimination. Your comment “not aware of her color” is absolutely ludicrous…. She played maids and servants not leading romantic roles. Back then Black performers were relegated regardless of major talent.

[@annmendes1361]

How delusional are you? This was the 40s love not 2021, racism was extremely common

[@theunrealtimemm]

@@annmendes1361 and it's extremely common today too.

[@theunrealtimemm]

Ms. MCDANIEL. Her last name was not Hattie.

[@annmendes1361]

@@theunrealtimemm you’re right, but it isn’t as normalised as it was back then, finally today some people actually face consequences for their racism

[@Thesummerinstinct]

Who's the beautiful presenter?

[@cuchulain1647]

I love her. She’s classy. - Also…. THATS real racism!!!

[@colettenasielski8190]

Wish you were here Today Haddie McDaniel wish you were

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@tq999]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Ricobaca]

You told Harpo to beat Hattie. 😂

[@do9138]

What? I said NOTHING about any of the Marx brothers.

[@darlingsarah5243]

🌹

[@joeshipley666]

Saw Whoopi, turned off.

[@GrimrDirge]

I came here for Hattie, not Whoopie.

[@do9138]

I don't need your permission to post. If you don't like it, don't read it.

[@vivandav67]

[@axlsg6511]

Two great African Americans actors and Whoppy

[@lovesthesun]

Whoppin sucks...Whoopi blows....she is a leftist and she is swinging high and low!!!!

[@Asmodeus1967]

Is it just me, or was her acceptance speech staged? Check it out. No one behind her as she's thanking the academy, then next screen sees her walking off and there's someone behind her sitting on a chair. Secondly, when she's walking away, and wiping her eyes, she's holding the tissue in her right hand, then next screen she's walking off holding the tissue in her left hand, and her oscar in her right. If you watch other videos, you'll see she's already holding the oscar when she's giving her FAKE acceptance speech, yet the original shows her setting it down before she speaks. I'm so happy she won, I'm just disappointed in the way they treated her. It's a shame she had to re-enact her acceptance speech. My 2 cents.

[@shelovezcandy2852]

I have researched this. They didn't do any close-ups on the night, so the stars went over to Warner a few days later, and re-enacted scenes from the Academy Awards. (Hattie had thanked Selznick and her agent in the original speech, but this wasn't on her re-enactment.) Victor Fleming was filmed being handed his Oscar, and making a speech, when he had never even attended the ceremony.

[@tomboyle7068]

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[@lovesthesun]

HATTIE WOULD HAVE HATED....HATED...WHOPPI....

[@do9138]

You knew her personally, did you?

[@mariedewitt5033]

She was at a segregated table. Not allowed at the movie premiere in Atlanta. Whoopi always does very superficial research and speaks extemporaneously

[@smartthinkerg8129]

I respect Hattie McDaniel but they ruined it by putting Whoopi Goldberg as the person who represent the great Mrs McDaniel.

[@do9138]

This is from a documentary about the Oscars, and Ms. Goldberg hosted the Oscars for several years.

[@ifeelpretty5790]

@@do9138 Yes and Whoopi Goldberg is an Oscar winner herself so her speaking about Hattie McDaniel being the first black actor to win an Oscar makes sense.

[@rickbailey189]

She reminds of the classic Black Southern Lady who can cook up just about anything...even a good ol southern story who can pull the wool over even a smart detective. Rumor has it she was Aunt Jememiah's granddaughter.

[@tomboyle7068]

Song for Hattie kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXm9m6GFqrF6pLs

[@permijitdunkley1697]

...

[@Opnwindo]

Didnt take long for whoopy to be horribly racist...

[@theunrealtimemm]

And where would that have been? Saying there were a lot of white people between those two awards? Truth.

[@do9138]

Some people that believe that any fact that implies whites aren't perfect is racist. They are wrong, of course.

[@cookiemonster7043]

Can white people experience what they made these poor black people and poor Hattie McDaniel go through?

[@turnerification123]

Unfortunately whoopie youll never match her acting ability or integrity

[@losintocablesdelbarrio]

WhoopyG. Si han tardado tanto tiempo en darles un oscar, a lo mejor es porque no eran tan buenos actores , por eso han tardado tanto .Woody ya nadie se acuerda de ti.

[@Adriana-vp1rm]

She is funny to talk. She is Jewish by father. I guess she likes to be black when it suits her.

[@seattlewa8500]

What you stated is a lie. Her father was not Jewish. His last name was Johnson. Nice try though.

[@Adriana-vp1rm]

@@seattlewa8500 Names don't matter silly. Jews change them like they change clothes. U should know simple facts in life. Many blacks who have surname Johnson are descendants of slaves in fact. 9 out of 10 slave ships were Jew owned. U don't know this either?

[@bunnidot0rg]

@@Adriana-vp1rm what the hell is your problem?

[@gaelaranda9860]

That Oscar was for Olivia de Havilland.

[@jackgamble6120]

1:02 - 1:06 ...blah.

[@sohyangworld1544]

Huh?

[@sohyangworld1544]

She's speaking facts. Im sorry thats too hard on you.

[@x-files5551]

@@sohyangworld1544 Do you think she won because she was black?

[@sohyangworld1544]

@@x-files5551 No, there were so many things working against him. Him being black actually made it harder.

[@notthis6988]

of course there's an angry white person here

[@mariej.richard5114]

Will smith lut us all the way in back with his silly philly azz