GONE: Theater Won't Show 'Gone With The Wind' Anymore
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Nope nor will it suddenly fix what ills blacks
Hijinx
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GWTW. isn't that the film where Uncle Remus and the Tar Baby start the Civil War and lose?Then some white woman says she doesn't give a damn, which proves right there that the movie is racist.
Misfit
Lawful neutral
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby...I had that book with a 45 record of that story when I was a kid.
My parents are racist.
I've got it on DVD. It came from Japan, not sure if Disney got any royalties from it.
Did they forget that GWTW broke the glass ceiling for black women in Hollywood?
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895#– October 26, 1952) was an American stage actress, professional singer-songwriter, and comedian. She 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.
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]
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895#– October 26, 1952) was an American stage actress, professional singer-songwriter, and comedian. She 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.
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]
I don't recall for sure, but was she not allowed to attend Academy Awards because they didn't allow blacks?
1940 Academy Awards
The Twelfth Academy Awards took place at the Coconut Grove Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was preceded by a banquet in the same room. Louella Parsons, an American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night, February 29, 1940:
Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar by her fine performance of 'Mammy' in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up to the queen's taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest speeches ever given on the Academy floor.
The Twelfth Academy Awards took place at the Coconut Grove Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was preceded by a banquet in the same room. Louella Parsons, an American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night, February 29, 1940:
Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar by her fine performance of 'Mammy' in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up to the queen's taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest speeches ever given on the Academy floor.
I downloaded my copy with everything else Disney ever produced .....