The Oscar for Hattie McDaniel made her the first Black person to win the award but due to racial segregation at the ceremony she sat separately from her GoneWithTheWind co-stars, sitting at a table at the back of the room
A list of winners had leaked before the show, so McDaniel's win came as no shock. Even so, when she was presented with the embossed plaque given to supporting winners at the time, the room was rife with emotion, wrote syndicated gossip columnist: "You would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had." The daughter of two former slaves gave a gracious speech about her win: "I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything I may be able to do in the future.
A staging for a 1939 Oscars newsreel had McDaniel standing by a table laden with awards; her best supporting actress plaque is up front.Said McDaniel in 1944 about her disappointing prospects following her Oscar win, "It was as if I had done something wrong." Selznick's first move had been to dispatch her on a live, movie-palace tour as Mammy, which played to half-filled houses. But he saw less and less use for his typecast star, and Warner Bros. eventually bought out her contract.
In her last days, McDaniel threw a deathbed party, coincidentally attended by her grandnephew's future life partner, then 15, who recalls "people milling around, drinking, laughing. Guests would go in one or two at a time and visit with her. I had no idea who that dying movie star was until a couple years later, I sawIn her last will and testament, McDaniel left detailed instructions for her funeral.
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