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Hattie McDaniel (1895-19952) was an Oscar® winning American actress. She is best known for her role as “Mammy” in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress, the first Oscar® won by a black entertainer. Her IMDb page shows 97 acting credits from 1930 to 1952. This page will rank Hattie McDaniel movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Sadly we could not find box office grosses on all of her movies. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Hattie McDaniel Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Hattie McDaniel Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Hattie McDaniel
1. Hattie McDaniel was born to former slaves in Wichita, Kansas in 1895.
2. Hattie McDaniel is arguably the first African-American woman to sing on radio (1915, with Professor George Morrison’s Negro Orchestra, Denver, CO); first African-American to be buried in Los Angeles’ Rosedale Cemetery
3. Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. She won as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). She became the first African-American to attend the Academy Awards® as a guest, not a servant.
4. Despite the fact Clark Gable played a joke on Hattie McDaniel during the filming of Gone with the Wind (1939) (he put real brandy in the decanter instead of iced tea during the Bonnie Blue birth celebration scene), McDaniel and Gable were actually good friends. Gable later threatened to boycott the premiere in Atlanta because McDaniel was not invited, but later relented when she convinced him to go.
5. Hattie McDaniel appeared in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Imitation of Life (1934), Alice Adams (1935), Libeled Lady (1936) and Gone with the Wind (1939), with Gone with the Wind winning in the category.
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I’ve actually seen a few episodes of her old TV series Beulah on DVD, Hattie is one of the strangest ones I’ve done. She has never been on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. She seems to have made all her films in the 30’s & 40’s. These are the people on the current 1000 she is connected with.
30 ANTHONY QUINN They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
172 MICKEY ROONEY The Big Wheel (1949)
227 KEENAN WYNN Since You Went Away (1944)
230 JEFF COREY The Flame (1947)
241 AKIM TAMIROFF China Seas (1935)
297 HENRY FONDA The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
297 HENRY FONDA The Male Animal (1942)
305 JOSEPH COTTEN Since You Went Away (1944)
496 ARTHUR KENNEDY They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
501 RAY MILLAND Next Time We Love (1936)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Flame (1947)
672 WALTER PIDGEON Saratoga (1937)
672 WALTER PIDGEON The Shopworn Angel (1938)
682 JOHN HOWARD Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
801 BETTE DAVIS In This Our Life (1942)
801 BETTE DAVIS Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
801 BETTE DAVIS The Great Lie (1941)
805 CHARLES LANE Nothing Sacred (1937)
805 CHARLES LANE The Bride Walks Out (1936)
909 JAMES STEWART Next Time We Love (1936)
909 JAMES STEWART The Shopworn Angel (1938)
909 JAMES STEWART Vivacious Lady (1938)
That’s 15 people on the list she worked with. But get this, Hattie appeared with 35 Oscar winners, more than double her connections.
ALICE BRADY Zenobia (1939)
ANTHONY QUINN They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
BETTE DAVIS In This Our Life (1942)
BETTE DAVIS Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
BETTE DAVIS The Great Lie (1941)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Flame (1947)
CHARLES COBURN George Washington Slept Here (1942)
CHARLES COBURN In This Our Life (1942)
CHARLES COBURN Vivacious Lady (1938)
CLARK GABLE China Seas (1935)
CLARK GABLE Gone with the Wind (1939)
CLARK GABLE Saratoga (1937)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Family Honeymoon (1949)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Imitation of Life (1934)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Since You Went Away (1944)
DEAN JAGGER Star for a Night (1936)
DOROTHY MALONE Janie Gets Married (1946)
FREDRIC MARCH Nothing Sacred (1937)
GARY COOPER Operator 13 (1934)
GIG YOUNG The Male Animal (1942)
GIG YOUNG They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
GINGER ROGERS Carefree (1938)
GINGER ROGERS Vivacious Lady (1938)
HENRY FONDA The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
HENRY FONDA The Male Animal (1942)
HUMPHREY BOGART Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
JAMES CAGNEY Johnny Come Lately (1943)
JAMES DUNN Hello, Sister! (1933)
JAMES STEWART Next Time We Love (1936)
JAMES STEWART The Shopworn Angel (1938)
JAMES STEWART Vivacious Lady (1938)
JANE DARWELL Battle of Broadway (1938)
JANE DARWELL Gone with the Wind (1939)
JANE DARWELL We’re Only Human (1935)
JANE WYMAN Over the Goal (1937)
JENNIFER JONES Since You Went Away (1944)
JOAN CRAWFORD The Shining Hour (1938)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Alice Adams (1935)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Saratoga (1937)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Since You Went Away (1944)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Little Colonel (1935)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Washington Masquerade (1932)
MARY ASTOR The Great Lie (1941)
MELVYN DOUGLAS The Shining Hour (1938)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Gone with the Wind (1939)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND In This Our Life (1942)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The Male Animal (1942)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
RAY MILLAND Next Time We Love (1936)
SPENCER TRACY Libeled Lady (1936)
THOMAS MITCHELL GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
THOMAS MITCHELL THE BIG WHEEL (1949)
THOMAS MITCHELL THE CAVALCADE OF ACADEMY AWARDS FROM 1928 – 1938 (1940)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Battle of Broadway (1938)
VIVIEN LEIGH Gone with the Wind (1939)
WALLACE BEERY China Seas (1935)
WALTER BRENNAN Alice Adams (1935)
WALTER BRENNAN Maryland (1940)
WALTER BRENNAN The Impatient Maiden (1932)
WALTER HUSTON In This Our Life (1942)
Hey Dan. Thanks for putting these lists together. I agree…it is strange when a movie actor has all of their movies in just two decades (barring untimely deaths like James Dean and child stars like Shirley Temple). I had not even heard of her show Beulah….and you have seen some of her episodes….you impress me more and more. Looking at the first list…short list…but filled with legends Fonda, Stewart, Davis. The second list only has 15 different winners….but it is amazing often she repeatedly work with the winners. That actually made it, in length, one of the longer Oscar winning lists you have submitted. Good stuff.
????? How long does it take to generate these lists?
No she has only 15 connections to the top 1000 list. She worked with 35 Oscar winners.
Thanks Dan….that 15 screwed me up….no wonder that list looked so long for 15 Oscar winning co-stars…lol. Thanks for setting me straight.
Mammy : “It ain’t fittin’… it ain’t fittin’. It jes’ ain’t fittin’…” It was awful that Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the premiere of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia, but that’s how people were in those States back then. I hope times have changed.
I’ve seen 9 of the 45 films on the chart, favorites are – Gone With the Wind, Show Boat, Nothing Sacred and They Died With Their Loafers On.
Almost hard to believe that one of the Oscar nominees from GWTW is still with us in 2020. Melanie Hamilton.
Looking at the trivia I like that Clark Gable was willing to boycott the premiere because Hattie wasn’t welcome.
Nice work Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve….thanks for the thoughts and comment on our Hattie McDaniel page. Tally count. Flora 21, me 10 and you 9. I agree it was a shame that she could not go to the premiere in Atlanta. Things are not perfect today, but they are much better. Of your favorites…I have seen They Died With Their Loafers On and GWTW. I like both of them as well…GWTW seems to get better the older I get. Glad you liked the trivia. Thanks for the nice words and the vote up.
I have seen 21 Hattie McDaniel movies, including 8 of the top 10.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Gone with the Wind.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Margie.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Affectionately Yours.
Favourite Hattie McDaniel Movies;
Gone with the Wind
Libeled Lady
Saratoga
I’m No Angel
Show Boat
They Died with Their Boots On
Vivacious Lady
Alice Adams
In This Our Life
China Seas
Nothing Sacred
The Great Lie
George Washington Slept Here
The Shopworn Angel
The Mad Miss Manton
Never Say Goodbye
The Male Animal
Other Hattie McDaniel Movies I Have Seen:
Since You Went Away
Carefree
The Little Colonel
Affectionately Yours
oops! I listed Carefree twice.
Hey Flora…that error has been fixed.
Hey Flora… I have seen 10 of her movies…so I am 11 behind your impressive total of 21. I have only seen 6 of your favorite McDaniel movies. I am really surprised you have not seen Blonde Venus. That movie stars Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich. I have also not seen Margie. I actually think The Little Colonel is one of the better Shirley Temple movies….not saying it is a favorite…but of those Temple movies this one is not too bad. Good stuff as always.
This new page provides comprehensive details of Hattie’s filmography; I am surprised that it is actually so large. I also like the Best Trivia section and was particularly interested in the information of her friendship with The King, which the co-star links column above also reflects.
Most of Gable’s co-stars seemed to get on with him [Spencer Tracy being a possible exception] and despite Clark’s mega success and massive status there seem to have been few airs and graces about him, in contrast to Tracy who obviously had an enormous preoccupation with status as reflected in his mania about his billing.
Also, whatever faults The King did have, racism was obviously not one of them. That is demonstrated by not only what Bruce says above about Clark’s relationship with Hattie; but also by information that he campaigned for the ending of black/white segregated restrooms at MGM.
Historically Hattie has her ‘niches’. Not only are there the ‘firsts’ that Bruce mentions in paras 2 and 3 of Best Trivia, but she will of course always be remembered as one of the stand-outs in the greatest box-office hit of the Classic Era GWTW.
Personally I never warmed to that movie; but I liked Hattie in it and whilst I thought she was wasted in the Al Leach/Mae West nonsense I’m No Myrna, I enjoyed Hattie’s performances in Showboat and in China Seas with her King. “Voted Up!”
Hey Bob…thanks for the feedback and for sharing your thoughts on Hattie McDonald. I was right there with you…I thought her movie output was on the low side. I suspect it was getting her mixed up with Butterfly McQueen. McQueen was also in Gone With The Wind…but only has 21 IMDb acting credits. I also liked the stories and Gable and McDaniel. I actually do not think she got enough credit for all the “firsts” she did. I imagine there is a good movie to be made about her life. Thanks for the mini-reviews on Gone With The Wind, China Seas and Showboat. Good stuff.