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. She has been married twice, first to James Vickery from 1969 until his death in 1979, then to Robert Dozier in 1981. It is one of the most popular sites for visitors to the cemetery. A graduate of Sweet Briar College, Muldaur was at one point a board member of the Screen Actors Guild and later the president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 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. She was also a guest star in two episodes of the original Star Trek; only about 30 actors have appeared in two generations of the franchise. In 1999, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery who changed its name to Hollywood Forever Cemetery wanted to right that wrong. Ms. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Thus, she was interred in Rosedale Cemetery. Law and Dr. 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 is best known for playing Rosalind Shays on L.A. 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. Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938 in New York, New York), is an American television 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.