Audiobook14 hours
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
Written by Jill Watts
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
From an accomplished historian comes an uncompromising look at the pervasive racism in Hollywood, as seen through the life and times of actress Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O’Hara in the movie classic Gone with the Wind. Her powerful performance won her an Oscar® and bolstered the hopes of black Hollywood that the entertainment industry was finally ready to write more multidimensional, fully-realized roles for blacks.
But despite this victory, and pleas by organizations such as the NAACP and SAG, roles for blacks continued to denigrate the African American experience. So Hattie McDaniel continued to play servants. “I’d rather play a maid then be a maid,” Hattie McDaniel answered her critics, but her flip response belied a woman who was emotionally conflicted. Here, in an exhaustively detailed and incisive text by a talented historian, is the story of a valiant woman who defied the racism of her time.
Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O’Hara in the movie classic Gone with the Wind. Her powerful performance won her an Oscar® and bolstered the hopes of black Hollywood that the entertainment industry was finally ready to write more multidimensional, fully-realized roles for blacks.
But despite this victory, and pleas by organizations such as the NAACP and SAG, roles for blacks continued to denigrate the African American experience. So Hattie McDaniel continued to play servants. “I’d rather play a maid then be a maid,” Hattie McDaniel answered her critics, but her flip response belied a woman who was emotionally conflicted. Here, in an exhaustively detailed and incisive text by a talented historian, is the story of a valiant woman who defied the racism of her time.
Related to Hattie McDaniel
Related audiobooks
Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mae West: An Icon in Black and White Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cary Grant: Dark Angel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sins of Hollywood Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Black List Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Butler: A Witness to History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Legs Are the Last to Go Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unbought and Unbossed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Temptations: Revised and Updated Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dynomite!: Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times -- A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Measure of a Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Entertainers and the Rich & Famous For You
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Black Unicorn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paris: The Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If You Would Have Told Me: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5BRITNEY: Breaking Free Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Inside Out: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Is this Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Open Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Down the Drain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Scrappy Little Nobody Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tell Me Everything: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Here We Go Again: My Life In Television Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just as I Am: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hello, Molly!: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Hattie McDaniel
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
5 ratings0 reviews