Biography: Hattie McDaniel |
Although her movie career consisted almost entirely of playing stereotypic maids and other servants, Hattie McDaniel was in fact the first black woman to sing on the radio and the first black performer to win an Academy Award, for her portrayal of... more
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Length: 64min
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon...
Cast: James Cagney Marjorie Main
Tags: Comedy Drama Crime Drama
Length: 97min
For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney plays itinerant newspaperman Tom Richards, who wanders into a small corruption-ridden town. Striking up a friendship with elderly...
George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Cast: Charles Coburn Percy Kilbride Jack Benny
Length: 93min
The Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman Broadway hit George Washington Slept Here has herein been tailored to the unique talents of Jack Benny. In the original play, city dweller Bill Fuller, fired up with the spirit of "back to the soil," purchases a...
Cast: Bette Davis Mary Astor
Length: 107min
The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love with playboy aviator George Brent. Brilliant but bitchy concert pianist Mary Astor (who won a well-deserved Academy Award for...
Cast: Vivien Leigh Hattie McDaniel David O. Selznick Clark Gable Olivia de Havilland Victor Fleming
Tags: Historical Epic Romance Epic Romantic Epic
Length: 222min
Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen...
Cast: James Stewart Margaret Sullavan Walter Pidgeon
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 85min
The second motion picture version of a ~Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the second pairing of actors James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. Stewart plays Private Bill Pettigrew, a naïve young Texan in New...
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