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Article: Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood.(Book Review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- November 1, 2005
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Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood by Jill Watts Amistad/HarperCollins, October 2005 $27.95, ISBN 0-060-51490-6
Much of what is widely known about Hattie McDaniel's early life was made up by white studio executives. Thanks to Jill Watts, a film studies coordinator and professor of history at California State University, San Marcos, a portrait of the woman who many knew only as Mammy from Gone With the Wind and radio's Beulah emerges that is both more interesting, complex and complete than what preceded. Watts applied the same exhaustive research of military records, city directories, interviews with McDaniel's associates and careful consideration of ...
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