Hattie McDaniel: The Beginning

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06/19/18 • 29 min

Hollywood in Color

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson

Hattie McDaniel and the Culture of Dissemblance (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (book) by Charlene B. Regester

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in 20th Century America (book) by Micki McElya

This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 (book) by Brent M.S. Campney

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Small Daffs by Axletree (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Hyperfun by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public domain

Impromptu in Quarter Comma Meantone by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Cheap Arp Guitar by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Media Cited:

Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove (2004) by Rita Dove

I Wish I Had Somebody (1926) by Hattie McDaniel

Boo Hoo Blues (1926) by Hattie McDaniel

Any Kind of Man Would Be Better Than You (1929) by Hattie McDaniel

That New Love Maker of Mine (1929) by Hattie McDaniel

*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson

Hattie McDaniel and the Culture of Dissemblance (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (book) by Charlene B. Regester

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in 20th Century America (book) by Micki McElya

This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 (book) by Brent M.S. Campney

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Small Daffs by Axletree (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Hyperfun by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public domain

Impromptu in Quarter Comma Meantone by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Cheap Arp Guitar by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Media Cited:

Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove (2004) by Rita Dove

I Wish I Had Somebody (1926) by Hattie McDaniel

Boo Hoo Blues (1926) by Hattie McDaniel

Any Kind of Man Would Be Better Than You (1929) by Hattie McDaniel

That New Love Maker of Mine (1929) by Hattie McDaniel

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

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Las Reinas of Los Angeles: The End

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Dolores Del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade (book) by Linda B Hall

Lupe Vélez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire (book) by Michelle Vogel

Lupe Vélez: Queen of the Bs (in the book From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture) by Rosa Linda Fregoso

Spitfire: Lupe Velez and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Ethnic Masquerade (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

"You Don't Say That in English!": The Scandal of Lupe Velez (book chapter) by Henry Jenkins

The Assumption of Lupe Velez (thesis) by Rita Gonzalez

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (book) by Francisco E. Balderrama

The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939 (book) by Lisa Jarvinen

Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (book) by Laura Isabel Serna

Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II (book) by Colin Gunckel

Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles (book) by William Deverell

The History of Sound at the Movies (youtube.com) by Filmmaker IQ

SB-670 Chapter 663 Mexican Repatriation Program of the 1930s ( leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

No Disclaimer by Jesse Spillane (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Lonesome Liar Dancing Up in the Trees by We Is Shore Dedicated (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Get Ready by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Assignment 1 by Drake Stafford (freemusicarchive.org) — Modified and looped from original — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

July by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Tumult by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Modified and looped from original — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Remember the Time We Use To Play by Komiku (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Accralate by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

On the Passing of Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

No soy de aqui, ni soy de alla by Chavela Vargas — Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

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Hattie McDaniel: Winning and Losing

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson

Scarlett, Rhett, and A Cast of Thousands: The filming of Gone with the Wind (book) by Roland Flamini

Memo from David O. Selznick (book) by David O. Selznick

White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the KKK (book) by Tom Rice

Gone with the Wind: Black and White in Technicolor (article) by Ruth Elizabeth Burks

The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan Right-Wing Movements and National Politics by Rory McVeigh

Race and the Cloud of Unknowing in Gone with the Wind (article) by Patricia Yeager

The Black Reaction to Gone with the Wind (article) by JD Stevens

The African American Press' Reception of Gone with the Wind (article) by James Tracy

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

The Wait by how the night came (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Pepper's Theme (full mix) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Caught the Feeling (Instrumental) by SNVRS (marmosetmusic.com)

Anamalie by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Reflection by how the night came (freemusicarchive.org) — Looped — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Ghostpocalypse 8 Epilog by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Poppers and Prosecco by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

To Move An Inch by Steve Combs (freemusicarchive.org) — Looped — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

July by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Looped — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Media Cited:

"Banning Gone with the Wind" September 2017, The View

Interview with Lennie Bluett, "Race and Hollywood," May 2006 by Turner Classic Movies

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Hattie McDaniel Winning Best Supporting Actress (1940)

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

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