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Monty Woolley makes a full-blown character of the man who comes to lodge ; Joseph Cotten is droll as the Navy playboy, and Hattie McDaniel does an Andy-act quite well .... No doubt, this would have been a sharper picture if Mr. Selznick had played it in much less time, and it would have been considerably more significant had he kept it somewhat closer to average means.
In 1935 McDaniel had prominent roles with her performance as a slovenly maid in RKO Pictures ' Alice Adams, a comic part as Jean Harlow's maid / traveling companion in MGM's China Seas, the latter her first film with Clark Gable, and as Isabella the maid in Murder by Television, with Béla Lugosi.
McDaniel had befriended several of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland and Clark Gable, with the last two of whom she would star in Gone with the Wind.
David Selznick had attempted to bring Hattie McDaniel, but MGM advised him not to because of Georgia's segregationist laws.
For them, the unique accolade McDaniel had won suggested that only those who did not protest Hollywood's systemic racial stereotypes would find work and success there.
On the same night that McDaniel became the first African American to be honored by the motion picture industry, she was also reminded of how far the industry and the country had yet to go in overcoming racism.
After filming a handful of episodes, however, McDaniel learned she had breast cancer.
McDaniel had purchased her white two-story, seventeen-room house in 1942.
When columnist Hedda Hopper sent her Richard Nixon placards and asked McDaniel to distribute them, McDaniel declined in a letter, saying that she had made a decision to stay out of politics.
Her plans were shattered when the doctor informed her she had a false pregnancy ; McDaniel fell into a depression.
In 1999, Tyler Cassity, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery, who had renamed it Hollywood Forever Cemetery, wanted to right the wrong and offered to have McDaniel interred in the cemetery.
McDaniel had been honored by the students of Howard University with a luncheon after winning her Oscar.
At the time of her death, McDaniel would have had few options other than black institutions to place the Oscar.
E. L. McDaniel, the Grand Dragon of the United Klans of America, the largest Klan organization in 1965, had his office in Natchez at 114 Main Street.
During his time in the American Wrestling Association, Flair had matches with Dusty Rhodes, André the Giant, Larry Hennig, and Wahoo McDaniel.
The rest of the tour personnel remained the same, with the exception of Donna McDaniel who'd left in 1994 shortly after the " Night of the Proms " performances ( which Jenny had missed since she was out touring with Joe Cocker ).
Steamboat, who had been brought in by JCP booker George Scott on the recommendation of Wahoo McDaniel, was initially billed as a babyface protege of Wahoo, and barely spoke above whispers in interviews.
Flynn had guided McDaniel to a 7-6 record through the first two months of the 2006-07 season, its best start in two decades.
In 1949, when he was only twenty, de Portago married American former showgirl Carroll McDaniel ( by whom he had two children ).
It was around this time that McDaniel learned that she had advanced breast cancer.
In he had his second 20-save season, placing second in the league with 24, which equalled the previous NL record as Lindy McDaniel set a new mark with 26.
He had an older brother named Augustus McDaniel Buttram, as well as five other elder siblings.

McDaniel and Hollywood
McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one for her contributions to radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for motion pictures at 1719 Vine Street.
While the Jim Crow laws kept McDaniel from the Atlanta premiere, she did attend the Hollywood debut on December 28, 1939.
McDaniel and other black actors feared that their roles would dry up if the NAACP and other critics of Hollywood stereotyping complained too loudly.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery instead built a large cenotaph memorial on the lawn overlooking the lake in honor of McDaniel.
McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one for her contributions to radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for motion pictures at 1719 Vine Street.
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood.
* Hattie McDaniel ( 1895 – 1952 ), actress, ( She has a cenotaph ; she is buried in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery ; Hollywood Memorial Park cemetery did not permit burial of black people in 1952 )
Hattie McDaniel was the Chairman of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee, providing entertainment for soldiers in hospitals, and those stationed at military bases.

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After Al Paschal gruonded out, Jay Cooke walked and Jim McDaniel singled home McAuliffe.
`` Lindy McDaniel threw batting practice about 25 minutes, and he looked good '', Hemus said.
* McDaniel, W. B Bauli the Scene of the Murder of Agrippina The Classical Quarterly, Vol.
Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.
Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.
In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.
McDaniel adopted the stage name Bo Diddley The origin of the name is somewhat unclear, as several differing stories and claims exist.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott " Skyntyte " Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.
* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
Ackerman himself appeared as a character in The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel ( a novel in the Man from U. N. C. L. E.
* Dr. Edward McDaniel Collins, Jr .-1970-1978
* Dr. Jay McDaniel on Panentheism
A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.
# The Dagger Affair by David McDaniel.
# The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel.
# The Monster Wheel Affair by David McDaniel.

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