Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
“I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,” McDaniel said as she accepted the 1st Academy Award given to an African-American for her performance in the film Gone with the Wind. “Analysis” of a continuity error in a clip from a film of the 1939 Oscars ceremony suggests that the “documentary” footage and McDaniel’s speech were re-staged.
Release Date | 2004-01-01 |
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Runtime | 6m |
Director | Ina Diane Archer |
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