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Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel
Yes they did. Just watch some old movies. Hattie McDaniel (Mammy in Gone With the Wind) when chastened for playing so many maids in movies said "I would rather make 150.00 a week playing a maid than be one for 15.00".
Samuel Jackson
Although there were many black female actors taking on minor roles in movies, the most notable one was Hattie McDaniel. She played the role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind, and was the first African American to win an Oscar (Best in Supporting Role).
woody strode
Mel Blanc is deceased, but is the actor in the most American movies at 1007! (Unless you count Ron Jeremy). As for living, the highest count I've found is Ned Beatty with 156. Anyone?? Mickey Rooney has 326 acting credits from 1926 through 2011. (some are television roles).
I recently took a class about this and we came to the conclusion that throughout American History African Americans have been portrayed as buffoons, lazy and dumb.
Yes, Ranker and Imdb as well as other sites have lists of movies that have a cast that is completely or a majority of African American actors. They also have these lists categorized.
There is a list of 82 movies credits for Hattie McDaniel on TCM.com. The earliest credits are six in 1932. Like her famous role in Gone With The Wind, she usually played the maid and similar characters.In addition to GWTW, the more well known movies Ms. McDaniel played in are 1934 Imitation of Life with Claudette Colbert and Rochelle Hudson; 1935 The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore; 1935 China Seas with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow; 1935 Alice Adams with Katherine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray; 1935 Murder by Television with Bela Lugosi (I just threw this one in for its quaintness); 1936 Showboat with Irene Dunne and Paul Robeson; 1936 Libeled Lady with Jean Harlow and Willaim Powell; 1937 Nothing Sacred with Carol Lombard and Fredric March; 1938 Carefree with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; 1940 Maryland with Walter Brennan and Faye Bainter; 1941 Affectionately Yours with Merle Oberon and Rita Hayworth; 1942 They Died with Their Boots On with Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland; 1944 Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert and Jennifer Jones; 1946 Song of the South with Ruth Warwick and James Baskett; 1949 The Big Wheel with Mickey Rooney; and her last entry in 1992 Wisecracks as herself with Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ellen DeGeneres.Fortunately, being a maid was steady work. God bless her.
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