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Status
Released
Release
2001
Runtime
59m
""They think the public more naïve than it actually is""
Profiles the life of performer Hattie McDaniel, the first Black American to win an Oscar, and her unapologetic resilience in the face of critics.
25 Cast Members
Whoopi Goldberg
Self - Host
Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
Jean Arthur
Self (archive footage)
Fay Bainter
Self (archive footage)
Willie Best
Self (archive footage)
Hugh Butts
Self - Psychiatrist
Nell Carter
Self
Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Cripps
Self - Film Historian
Bing Crosby
Self (archive footage)
Gerald Early
Self - Cultural Historian
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Hohl
Self (archive footage)
Lena Horne
Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh
Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Charlene Regeste
Self - Film Historian
David O. Selznick
Self (archive footage)