Movies by Hattie McDaniel
As part of the cast:
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TV Graffiti (2007)
Cast: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Kirk Douglas, Jackie Gleason …
See how the sitcom started in this collection hailing the early days of TV comedy, featuring five rare shows from the 1950s. Included are Hattie McDaniel in the never-aired "Beulah" and an…
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The Big Wheel (1949)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Spring Byington, Milo O'Shea …
Directed by: Edward Ludwig
After his father -- a famous race-car driver -- dies during the Indianapolis 500, cocky Billy Coy (Mickey Rooney) is determined to become a champion racer himself. Taking a job with his…
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Song of the South (1946)
Cast: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett …
Directed by: Harve Foster
Controversial for its dated treatment of slavery, Disney's classic film blends live action with animation to tell the story of Johnny, who's been sent to live on his…
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Since You Went Away (1944)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple …
Directed by: John Cromwell
Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) is the wife of a businessman who becomes an officer during WWII. Fighting back her own fears and anxieties, Anne strives to maintain a normal, stable household…
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland …
Directed by: David Butler
When two producers want to hire Dinah Shore for their new revue, her egomaniacal boss (Eddie Cantor) insists on a starring role for himself. As the show comes together, Warner Brothers'…
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In This Our Life (1942)
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland …
Directed by: John Huston
A week before her wedding to lawyer Craig Fleming (George Brent), Stanley Timberlake (Bette Davis) seduces her sister's husband and the two run off together, setting off a melodramatic…
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The Great Lie (1941)
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor …
Directed by: Edmund Goulding
In director Edmund Goulding's engrossing melodrama, rivals Maggie Patterson (Bette Davis), a refined Southern socialite, and Sandra Kovack (Mary Astor), a vitriolic concert pianist, vie…
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
This account of Gen. George Custer takes liberties, but there isn't a more dashing on-screen Custer than Errol Flynn. The film follows Custer from his West Point days to his death as he…
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood …
Director Victor Fleming's 1939 epic adaption of Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name stars Vivien Leigh as self-absorbed, headstrong Scarlett O'Hara, a Southern Belle who…
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Carefree (1938)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy …
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
With Fred playing a psychoanalyst and Ginger as his besotted patient, this Astaire-Rogers vehicle is as much screwball comedy as it is musical. When patient falls in love with doctor, that…
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Sky Racket (1937)
Cast: Hattie McDaniel, Joan Barclay, Bruce Bennett …
Directed by: Robert F. Hill, Sam Katzman
When airplanes carrying mail mysteriously vanish, federal agent Eric Lane (Bruce Bennett) is sent to investigate. On his way to the crime scene, Lane discovers a stowaway (Joan Barclay)…
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Classic Cinema: Mickey Rooney Triple Feature (1936)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore …
Directed by: John Cromwell, Willis Goldbeck, Edward Ludwig …
Pint-sized dynamo Mickey Rooney, one of the biggest box office stars of the late 1930s and early '40s, is featured here in three gems that will keep you laughing. In Little Lord…
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Alice Adams (1935)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone …
Directed by: George Stevens
Director George Stevens's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel stars Katharine Hepburn as Alice, a young, middle-class woman with society aspirations…
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The Little Colonel (1935)
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge …
Directed by: David Butler
When a Southern belle (Evelyn Venable) married a Yankee (John Lodge), her father (Lionel Barrymore), a former Confederate colonel, promptly disowned her. Now, years, later, the couple's…
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Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Cast: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer …
Directed by: Melville W. Brown
James Cagney's look-alike brother, William, co-stars as one half of a prank-loving duo (Edward Nugent plays the other half) who pass time in the Air Force by playing practical jokes on…