Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel has two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood; one for radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard and one for motion pictures at 1719 Vine Street. The true circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear. It is one of the most popular sites for visitors to the cemetery. Witnesses later recalled seeing several Gestapo officers entering her building shortly before her death. McDaniel's family did not want to disturb her remains after all that time, so the cemetery did the next best thing and built a memorial to Hattie McDaniel on the lawn overlooking the lake. It has also been asserted that she was murdered by being thrown from the window by Gestapo officers. In 1999, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery who changed its name to Hollywood Forever Cemetery wanted to right that wrong. Ms. Officially described as a suicide, it was theorised that she took her own life when her relationship with the Nazi leaders deteriorated due to her unwillingness to appear in propaganda films and more importantly to end her relationship with her Jewish lover.

Thus, she was interred in Rosedale Cemetery. When she died suddenly the German press revealed that she had died of epilepsy, however in later years it was discovered that she had died as a result of a fall from her hotel window. Hattie McDaniel died on October 26, 1952 and was interred in the Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. It had been her wish to be buried with her fellow movie stars in the Hollywood Cemetery in Hollywood; however Jack Roth, the cemetery's owner at the time, refused to allow her to be buried there because she was a "Negro" and could not be in the same cemetery as "White" people. A meeting with Adolf Hitler in the mid 1930s resulted in Müller being offered parts in films that promoted Nazi ideals. It was one such role, the part of Mammy in Gone With the Wind (1939), opposite Vivien Leigh, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on February 29, 1940, the first Black performer to win an Oscar. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Müller came to be regarded as the ideal Aryan woman, and particularly in light of Marlene Dietrich's move to Hollywood was courted and promoted as Germany's leading film actress. Making her first appearance in motion pictures in 1932, she spent much of her twenty year career playing maids, due mainly to the paucity of roles available to African American actresses. She starred in more than 20 German films, including Viktor und Viktoria (1933), which was one of her biggest successes and which was remade as Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews.

She was born in Wichita, Kansas. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day, and along with Marlene Dietrich was seen to embody the fashionable Berlin society of her era. Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 - October 26, 1952) was an American singer and actress. Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in the late 1920s in Berlin and quickly became popular. Renate Müller (April 26, 1906 - October 1, 1937) was a German actress.