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. Mitchell was married to the film and theatre critic David Monsey, and died of cancer in 1979, at the age of fifty-three. It is one of the most popular sites for visitors to the cemetery. She wrote an acclaimed biography of the French writer Colette, and her own autobiography was published in 1957. 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. Outside of acting, Mitchell was also an established writer, penning several books for children and adults as well as winning awards for playwriting. In 1999, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery who changed its name to Hollywood Forever Cemetery wanted to right that wrong. Ms. She continued to act occasionally on television until the late 1970s, appearing in guest roles in series such as Out of the Unknown (in 1966); her final screen role was in the BBC science-fiction series 1990 in 1977.

Thus, she was interred in Rosedale Cemetery. On television, Mitchell was voted Television Actress of the Year for 1953 by the Daily Mail newspaper, mainly for her role as Cathy in the Nigel Kneale / Rudolph Cartier adaptation of Emily Brontė's novel Wuthering Heights. The following year, she appeared in another Kneale / Cartier literary adaptation when she took the role of Julia opposite Peter Cushing as Winston Smith in their controversial and well-remembered adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was to prove her most memorable role on the small screen. 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. She went on to appear in several prominent film roles over the following three decades, winning a British Film Award for The Divided Heart (1954) and the Berlin Film Festival Award for Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957). 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. Already an experienced stage actress, she did not make her speaking debut in film until the age of twenty-four in The Queen of Spades (1949), although she had played an uncredited minor role in Love on the Dole eight years earlier. 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. Yvonne Mitchell (born July 7, 1925 in London, England, UK; died March 24, 1979 in London, England, UK) was a British stage, television and film actress, probably best remembered for her role as Julia in the 1954 BBC Television adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

She was born in Wichita, Kansas. Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 - October 26, 1952) was an American singer and actress.