Queer Places:
East High School, 1600 City Park Esplanade, Denver, CO 80206, Stati Uniti
2203 S Harvard Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018, Stati Uniti
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, 1831 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, Stati Uniti
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an American stage
actress, professional singer-songwriter, and comedian. The only evidence of an
ongoing, committed, intimate relationship in McDaniel's life is with another
woman, journalist Ruby Goodwin.
McDaniel's letters to Goodwin reveal a deep, loving commitment. She may not
have moved among Hollywood's white lesbian set, the racial lines in the film
colony were far more rigid than the sexual ones, yet
Marlene Dietrich did call
McDaniel a friend to the press, fueling rumors among the subculture of an
affair.
McDaniel is best known for
her role as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first Academy Award won by an
African American entertainer. She has been romantically linked to
Tallulah Bankhead. Hollywood is an American drama web television
miniseries about a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers during the
Hollywood Golden Age in the post-World War II era trying to make their dreams
come true. Queen Latifah as Hattie McDaniel is a fictionalized version of the actress who gives Camille,
the main character, advice. McDaniel is portraied as having an ongoing friends
with benefits relationship with
Tallulah Bankhead.
In addition to acting in many films, McDaniel was a radio performer and
television star; she was the first black woman to sing on radio in the United
States.[1][2]
She appeared in over 300 films, although she received screen credits for only
80 or so.[3]
McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one at
6933 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to radio and one at 1719 Vine
Street for acting in motion pictures. In 1975, she was inducted into the Black
Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in 2006 became the first black Oscar winner
honored with a US postage stamp.[4]
McDaniel, “a discreet bisexual who counted Alabama-born Broadway and film
star Tallulah Bankhead among her
lovers,” was treated with gross disrespect during a time when segregation and
racism flourished in Hollywood and Los Angeles.
East High School
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel
- Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969,
William J. Mann, 2001