Hattie McDaniel Mammy Trope! Black Hollywood biggest SELLOUT!

hey friend welcome to my channel Karine  Alourde where we Deep dive and break down   the most iconic stars in history if you're not  yet subscribed please be sure to do so and turn   your notifications on so you never miss an upload  now let's get into this video today we're talking   about probably the most controversial figure  in black history entertainment Hattie McDaniel   she was deemed as someone who only looked out for  herself her finances her money a sellout and Uncle   Tom all the words that you can think of in the  book so we're gonna get into her story and just   how it came to be and for those who don't know who  Hattie McDonough was she was an American actress   singer and comedian who made history as the first  African-American actress to win an Oscar for her   performance as Mammy and Gone With the Wind she is  the first African-American to be honored with the   US postage stamp and the recipient of two stars  in Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as induction   into the black filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975  and was a member of the Colorado Women's Hall   of Fame since 2010 he has accomplished so much  Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American   woman to perform on radio in the United States  and she also made history as an actress a radio   performer in the television personality despite  being in over 300 films only 83 of them featured   her name in the credits McDaniel was born in  Wichita Kansas in June 10 1893 to parents who   had been slaves she was the 13th of 14 children  her mother Suzanne Holbert was a gospel singer and   her father Henry McDaniel served as a private in  the United States colored troops during the Civil   War the family relocated to Colorado in 1900  first settling in Fort Collins and then Denver   Patty went to school at Denver East McDonald was  not only a singer musician but also a songwriter   she was very talented guys and her brother Otis  mcdonnell's menstrual show for carnivals she honed   her songwriting skills and she started her career  in radio in the mid-1920s performing with the   Denver group reality Hound magana was forced to  take a job as a janitor at Sam picks Club Madrid   and Milwaukee after the 1929 stock market crash  left her with no other marketable skills and in   spite of the owner's initial hesitation for her to  perform she was given a chance to actually perform   and she quickly established herself as a main  performer McDaniel relocated to Los Angeles in   1931 to be closer to her siblings she worked as a  maid and a cook when she was unable to find acting   roles in films Sam got his sister an appearance  on the optimistic do not hour a radio program he   produced for KNX her show was a hit but she was  still forced to take a job as a maid because of   the low pay her first role on screen was as a  maid in The Golden West her second role was in   I'm No Angel and in the early 1930s she appeared  in a number of films without receiving credit for   her work Magano became a member of the SAG in 1934  she started getting recognized and she was casting   bigger roles which led to more film credit it's  during this time period She faced backlash from   some in the black community who felt she didn't  do enough to challenge Hollywood status quo by   accepting safe roles and the little colonel she  played a yearning servant who dreams of the Old   South mcdano eventually found her niche as a sassy  strong-willed maid the National Association for   the advancement of colored people the NAACP fought  hard to require the film's producers and director   to delete racial you know stereotypes from  the films in particular the offensive slur the   n-word and to alter scenes that might be you know  indecent and that in their view were historically   inaccurate and some offensive languages  was modified but another terrible term like   [ __ ] remained in the film they literally call  black people [ __ ] and the film's message with   respect to slavery remained essentially the same  consistent with the book the film's screenplay   also referred to poor whites as white trash and  it described these words equally to characters   black and white so Scarlett O'Hara was a wealthy  woman who did look down at poor people when   she had to be poor and start over it was like a  degrading thing it was a classus and racial movie   but people love it because they love Vivian lay  and Clark Gable and the fashion and the colors and   all that stuff so they refused to not see the film  for what it is so Lois Grand Theater on Peachtree   Street in Atlanta Georgia was selected by the  studio as a site for the Friday November 15 1939   premiere of Gone With the Wind And while Jim Crow  laws kept madano from the Atlanta Premiere she did   attend the film's Hollywood debut on December  28 1939. for her performance she received the   1939 Academy Award for best supporting actress  the first black actor to have been nominated and   actually win her role in Gone with the win  had her lime some whites in the South there   were complaints that in the film she had been too  familiar with her white owner some critics felt   that McDonald not only accepted the world but also  in her statement to the Press she seemed to be   okay with the Hollywood stereotypes writing feel  for critics of those who are fighting for black   civil rights later when McDonald tried to take  her mommy character on a road show black audiences   did not prove receptive many African-Americans  celebrated McDonald's success but they did so   with mixed emotions the book was criticized for  its alleged celebration of the slave system and   condemnation of the liberators who were seen as  the villains they reasoned that since McDaniel   was the only person to receive this award it  must mean that only those who did not object to   Hollywood pervasive use of racial stereotypes were  able to find employment and Achieve success in the   industry the 12 Academy Award took place at the  Coconut Grove Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel   in Los Angeles it was preceded by a banquet in  the same room Louella Parsons in American gossip   columnist wrote about Oscar Night February 29 1940  saying Heidi Mcdonald earned that golden Oscar by   her fine performance of mammy and Gone With the  Wind if you had seen her face when she walked   up to the black Foreman took the gold trophy you  would have had the choke in your voice that all   of us had when Hattie hair trimmed with gardenias  a face a light accepted the honor and one of the   finest speeches ever given to the Academy Award  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science fellow   members of the motion picture industry and honored  guest this is one of the happiest moments of my   life and I want to thank each one of you who had  a part in selecting me for one of their Awards   I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit  to my race and to the molten picture industry   my heart is too full to tell you just how I  feel and may I say thank you but Sally the   Discrimination continued after award ceremony as  well her white co-stars went to a no blacks Club   where McDonald was also denied entry and other  black woman did not win an Oscar again for 50   years with Whoopi Goldberg winning best supporting  actress for her role in ghosts McDonald did   find success regardless she purchased her white  two-story 17 room house in 1942 the house included   a large living room dining room drawing room Den  Butler's Pantry kitchen service porch library four   bedrooms and a basement but Daniel had a yearly  Hollywood party when Daniel married Howard Hickman   on January 19 1911 in Denver Colorado he died in  1915 her second husband George lingford died of   a gunshot wound in January 1925 soon after she  married him and while her career was on the rise   she married James Lloyd Crawford a real estate  salesman on March 21st 1941 in Tucson Arizona   and according to Donald Bogle in his book bright  Boulevard bold dreams McDonald happily confided   to gossip columnist had a hopper in 1945 that  she was pregnant but Daniel began buying baby   clothes and set up a nursery in her house her  plans were shattered when she suffered a false   pregnancy and fell into a depression she never  had any children she divorced Crawford in 1945   after four and a half years married Crawford had  been jealous of her career Mary Larry Williams   an interior decorator on June 11 1949 in Yuma  Arizona but divorced him in 1950 after testifying   that their five months together had been marred  by arguing and fussing with a heart condition   McDonald checked into the hospital in August of  1950 she was sent home to recover in October and   was said to be making sight Improvement in her  recovery from a mild stroke and as of January   3rd 1951 on October 26 1952 she passed away at the  motion picture house Hospital in Woodland Hills   California from breast cancer tens of thousands of  people attended her funeral to honor her life and   work McDaniel's First Choice Hollywood Cemetery  was off limits to non-whites at the time of her   death so she was laid to rest in her second  preference Rosedale Cemetery after McDaniel's   family turned down the cemetery's offered to  have her reburied there in 1999 the cemetery   built a monument not one of Hollywood's most  popular tourist attractions on the edge of its   Lake in honor of her memory and her last will and  testament written in December 1951 McDonald left   her Oscar to the students of Howard University who  hosted a luncheon in her honor after she won the   award despite evidence that McDonald had earned  an excellent income as an actress her final estate   worth less than ten thousand dollars and over  eleven thousand dollars in taxes were reportedly   owed by the estate and according to the IRS the  Probate Judge eventually ordered the cell of her   entire estate including her Oscar to satisfy her  debtors 29 years later the Oscar turned up where   Madonna wanted it to beat Howard University where  according to reports it was displayed in a glass   case a University's drama Department unfortunately  it seems to have vanished from Howard sometime in   1960s or 1970s and has never been located and in  2007 an article in The Huffington Post repeated   rumors that the Oscar had been cast into the  Potomac River by Angry civil rights protesters   in the 1960s McDaniel's popularity brought  increased scrutiny from some quarters of the   black community who are not pleased with her rise  to prominence the National Association for the   advancement of colored people and others have  voiced their displeasure that black actors are   often Typecast as servants and Hollywood films  and are portrayed as being either lazy stupid   content and menial jobs or violent they claim  these depictions were not only inaccurate but   unfair as well some people criticized McDaniel for  being an Uncle Tom or someone who seeks personal   gain by supporting offensive racial restrictions  she reportedly said why should I complain about   making 700 a week playing a maid if I did didn't  I'd be making seven dollars a week being one end   quote but Daniel and other black actresses and  actors feared that their roles would evaporate if   the NAACP and other Hollywood critics complained  too loudly she blamed these critics for hindering   her career and sought the help of allies of  doubtful reputation yes is it problematic   I've done videos for like Francine Everett Dorothy  Dandridge Lena Horne you well guys you know Eartha   Kitt Diane Carroll all women who refused to play  stereotypical roles right these women stood fast   and poor Sheila guys and Francine Everett never  got to see an inch of success of Hollywood because   they wanted to stick to doing race films that  were for the advancement of black people instead   of the regression she was the daughter of slaves  her parents worked on Plantation they still had   that slave mentality when you hear her stories  where she spoke about how her mother worked at   a Plantation that was not much different than Tara  that was in the film you ingrained that into your   child and those generational curses stay with  people for a long time I have friends who came   from more torn countries that there was always  war in their countries and the constant fear   and Trauma PTSD of not knowing if your house will  stand tomorrow or if you'll find food or if you'll   walk past a landmine or something like that and  they come here and it's still in them they still   move in that cautious way although you're trying  to convince them that you know you're safe you're   this it's still within them and they carry that  with them and they have to and they in a sense   projected unto their kids it's not their fault  that's PTSD that's trauma you got to think the   scale of PTSD to witness your whole family and  everyone else just be slaves and that's the norm   that's the norm for you to be in a subservient  position and role it's the norm you gotta imagine   the PTSD that happens and how to they pushed  out on their kids I'm not justifying it but   someone like Hattie probably really didn't know  better and in her Psychology was already messed   up and then when she said to a job rather me get  paid seven dollars or 700 a week you know she   was able to buy a house in her later life she  did help out so many people and funded so many   different organizations it took her a while to do  that you know because she didn't want to step on   any Toes or upset anyone and lose opportunities  for herself but once she was like established she   started to speak out more and help out more and  stuff because it was like I'm not trying to stop   While most actresses did ended up starving  that refused these roles and stuff and had   nothing and y'all seen the reviews I even did for  Francine Everett dying alone on the system welfare   like it's just it's a sad ending to their lives  though they had their dignity but it's a survival   mechanism that many of her critics if given the  opportunity would take the route that she took   right but it was kind of disturbing to see even  though Hattie McDaniel was already dark-skinned   she colored her skin even darker along with many  other actors and actresses of that time they would   color their skin darker as a Minstrel and these  films and shows to just you know go on with the   stereotype it's it's just was hard to see it all  these things angered me movies like Gone With the   Wind all these things just stay anger you because  you you don't realize how shockingly real this was   in those days that people really went through this  kind of discrimination like you won an Oscar and   can't even celebrate the way you want to because  you were born a color that you didn't choose it's   just it's very sad very sad stuff to see and a lot  of people in those times did what they had to do   to survive so give them Grace because you weren't  in this time you weren't in this time before the   people that were in that time that I think they  did take her Oscar and throw it in the Potomac   River I do believe that I do believe that because  Howard y'all should have been fine if it was   locked up in a box somewhere go dig it up and find  it because regardless if you agreed with the means   of how she won the Oscar or whatever when Monique  won the Oscar for for precious she dressed up as   Hattie McDaniel thanked her and was like thank you  for doing what you had to do so that us we didn't   have to like you know it's still history it's  still history so I don't understand how Howard   still cannot find her Oscar that's just crazy to  me where is it and the treatment she gets now in   today's time is like from all these self-righteous  people that hey if you were in this condition and   this time you don't know how you would act the  mind is a powerful thing and once people hijack   your mind to make you believe you're subservient  and inferior it's very difficult to get out of it   so there's all these think pieces and all these  strong Warriors that have a lot to say that   wouldn't even survive one day during those times  so just be quiet and celebrate the woman for what   she's accomplished we can still criticize and be  against what she did and still appreciate the fact   that she there and held in there until she got  this huge accomplishment you know what I mean you   can critique something and still honor the person  for being the first I I don't know if that makes   sense you guys can disagree with me I understand  the strong passion trust me I understand the anger   and just the whole selling out of it I really do  understand that but at the same time she was still   being a maid even though she was acting like  things were rough for Hattie okay she was just   a woman just trying to get by and do what she had  to do to survive she was surviving a lot of these   people were just surviving someone like Lena  Horne came from wealthy parents it was easy for   her to say no her her dad was like I could pay  my daughter whatever you're trying to offer to   her to the studio heads okay she came from like  the mulatto side of the people that was really   able to take care of her and even uh someone  like Eartha Kitt and Diane Carroll like these   people of their time Diane Carroll came from her  peoples were affluent in Harlem she had options   Barry McDaniel had things that weighed against  her there was the weight which during those times   there was discrimination for bigger people  whether you are white or black okay and then   you were a woman where there was discrimination  for women too A lot of these women in the 1940s   white or black were very tortured y'all seen  all these videos they died taking their own   lives depressed no matter their color and then  you were black she just had three things against   her that really didn't give her much options in  this world and you may not agree but hey I love   you guys so much thank you for tuning in if you  like the music you're listening to the link is in   the description comment below what else would you  guys like to see I love you guys until next time

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Length: 17min 46sec (1066 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 10 2023