Hattie McDaniel – (Actress)

The Oscars and a Hidden History: Hollywood Legend Hattie McDaniel

The Little Colonel (1935)

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson

 

Evelyn Venable, Shirley Temple, and Hattie McDaniel in The Little Colonel 1935
Shirley Temple & Hattie McDaniel in The Little Colonel

Shirley Temple and Hattie McDaniel in The Little Colonel

Hattie McDaniel: "Sooner or Later" 1946

Hattie McDaniel: Sooner or Later 1946

Hattie McDaniel: “Sooner or Later” 

Song of the South
November 12, 1946

 

1942 Olivia DeHaviland and Hattie McDaniel are co stars again, In This Our Life. One of the few movies she did not play a maid.

1942 Olivia DeHaviland and Hattie McDaniel are co-stars again, In This Our Life. One of the few movies she did not play a maid.

Hattie plays Aida, the cook and housekeeper for a small-town widow and newspaper publisher trying to rid the town of corruption in JOHNNY COME LATELY (1943), a turn-of-the-century story starring James Cagney (tasting Aida's pork chops at right) alongside stage star Grace George (as the publisher) and small-town character actress Marjorie Main.

Hattie plays Aida, the cook and housekeeper for a small-town widow and newspaper publisher trying to rid the town of corruption in JOHNNY COME LATELY(1943), a turn-of-the-century story starring James Cagney (tasting Aida’s pork chops at right) alongside stage star Grace George (as the publisher) and small-town character actress Marjorie Main.

 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

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