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Aren't nonexistent countries fun?
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1763480/aren-t-nonexistent-countries-fun
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BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
BLAZING A TRAIL
Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history
Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro
Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.
Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”
Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.
Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”
McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.
As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
#1940s #2020 #AcademyAwards #Atlanta #AwardsExtraOscarsEdition #BlazingATrail #California #EightyYearsAgo #Georgia #GoneWithTheWind #HattieMcDaniel #LosAngeles #MoNique #MovieHistory #NoBlacksPolicyAtVenue #Precious #RaceInAmerica #SegregatedHousing #VanityFair #WonOscar -
BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
BLAZING A TRAIL
Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history
Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro
Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.
Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”
Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.
Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”
McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.
As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
#1940s #2020 #AcademyAwards #Atlanta #AwardsExtraOscarsEdition #BlazingATrail #California #EightyYearsAgo #Georgia #GoneWithTheWind #HattieMcDaniel #LosAngeles #MoNique #MovieHistory #NoBlacksPolicyAtVenue #Precious #RaceInAmerica #SegregatedHousing #VanityFair #WonOscar -
BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
BLAZING A TRAIL
Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history
Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro
Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.
Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”
Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.
Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”
McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.
As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
#1940s #2020 #AcademyAwards #Atlanta #AwardsExtraOscarsEdition #BlazingATrail #California #EightyYearsAgo #Georgia #GoneWithTheWind #HattieMcDaniel #LosAngeles #MoNique #MovieHistory #NoBlacksPolicyAtVenue #Precious #RaceInAmerica #SegregatedHousing #VanityFair #WonOscar -
This is quite an interesting article about #HattieMcDaniel.
i remember a school outing to a cinema in the city (Naarm) to see #GoneWithTheWind. as a catholic schoolgirl in the 60s i was clueless about a lot of things, had no great idea what the story was about and most of what i remember is that i was bored witless.
in later years, i did come to wonder about McDaniel’s participation in and poor treatment in such a crap industry.a parallel oscar story must surely be that of Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress winner for the 2011 film, #TheHelp. it’s a problematic film on lots of levels (white saviourism, for starters).
I think i read somewhere that magazines re-write themselves every four years, cos there is a fixed number of topics/angles to explore. Don’t know what the cycle length is for film, but even white-ish movies like the help provide a service; they present each succeeding generation of mainly white audiences with a dose of truth they are unlikely to encounter elsewhere, and the help introduced people to the Jim Crow era all over again (as well as the economic class known as white trash, and the subservience of women generally).
the help is mediocre and cringeworthy at times, but there were some knockout performances. Viola Davis was robbed - she deserved a best actress oscar for this, and Jessica Chastain should have got best supporting actress. the film has lots of cringeworthy moments, but giving the oscar to octavia spencer for playing a likeable maid who helped the poor white lady was the worst, just on principle. (None of this is to criticise Octavia Spencer or her performance, it’s just the oscar politics I’m on about here.)anyway, there are worse things in the world…
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This is quite an interesting article about #HattieMcDaniel.
i remember a school outing to a cinema in the city (Naarm) to see #GoneWithTheWind. as a catholic schoolgirl in the 60s i was clueless about a lot of things, had no great idea what the story was about and most of what i remember is that i was bored witless.
in later years, i did come to wonder about McDaniel’s participation in and poor treatment in such a crap industry.a parallel oscar story must surely be that of Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress winner for the 2011 film, #TheHelp. it’s a problematic film on lots of levels (white saviourism, for starters).
I think i read somewhere that magazines re-write themselves every four years, cos there is a fixed number of topics/angles to explore. Don’t know what the cycle length is for film, but even white-ish movies like the help provide a service; they present each succeeding generation of mainly white audiences with a dose of truth they are unlikely to encounter elsewhere, and the help introduced people to the Jim Crow era all over again (as well as the economic class known as white trash, and the subservience of women generally).
the help is mediocre and cringeworthy at times, but there were some knockout performances. Viola Davis was robbed - she deserved a best actress oscar for this, and Jessica Chastain should have got best supporting actress. the film has lots of cringeworthy moments, but giving the oscar to octavia spencer for playing a likeable maid who helped the poor white lady was the worst, just on principle. (None of this is to criticise Octavia Spencer or her performance, it’s just the oscar politics I’m on about here.)anyway, there are worse things in the world…
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This is quite an interesting article about #HattieMcDaniel.
i remember a school outing to a cinema in the city (Naarm) to see #GoneWithTheWind. as a catholic schoolgirl in the 60s i was clueless about a lot of things, had no great idea what the story was about and most of what i remember is that i was bored witless.
in later years, i did come to wonder about McDaniel’s participation in and poor treatment in such a crap industry.a parallel oscar story must surely be that of Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress winner for the 2011 film, #TheHelp. it’s a problematic film on lots of levels (white saviourism, for starters).
I think i read somewhere that magazines re-write themselves every four years, cos there is a fixed number of topics/angles to explore. Don’t know what the cycle length is for film, but even white-ish movies like the help provide a service; they present each succeeding generation of mainly white audiences with a dose of truth they are unlikely to encounter elsewhere, and the help introduced people to the Jim Crow era all over again (as well as the economic class known as white trash, and the subservience of women generally).
the help is mediocre and cringeworthy at times, but there were some knockout performances. Viola Davis was robbed - she deserved a best actress oscar for this, and Jessica Chastain should have got best supporting actress. the film has lots of cringeworthy moments, but giving the oscar to octavia spencer for playing a likeable maid who helped the poor white lady was the worst, just on principle. (None of this is to criticise Octavia Spencer or her performance, it’s just the oscar politics I’m on about here.)anyway, there are worse things in the world…
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This is quite an interesting article about #HattieMcDaniel.
i remember a school outing to a cinema in the city (Naarm) to see #GoneWithTheWind. as a catholic schoolgirl in the 60s i was clueless about a lot of things, had no great idea what the story was about and most of what i remember is that i was bored witless.
in later years, i did come to wonder about McDaniel’s participation in and poor treatment in such a crap industry.a parallel oscar story must surely be that of Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress winner for the 2011 film, #TheHelp. it’s a problematic film on lots of levels (white saviourism, for starters).
I think i read somewhere that magazines re-write themselves every four years, cos there is a fixed number of topics/angles to explore. Don’t know what the cycle length is for film, but even white-ish movies like the help provide a service; they present each succeeding generation of mainly white audiences with a dose of truth they are unlikely to encounter elsewhere, and the help introduced people to the Jim Crow era all over again (as well as the economic class known as white trash, and the subservience of women generally).
the help is mediocre and cringeworthy at times, but there were some knockout performances. Viola Davis was robbed - she deserved a best actress oscar for this, and Jessica Chastain should have got best supporting actress. the film has lots of cringeworthy moments, but giving the oscar to octavia spencer for playing a likeable maid who helped the poor white lady was the worst, just on principle. (None of this is to criticise Octavia Spencer or her performance, it’s just the oscar politics I’m on about here.)anyway, there are worse things in the world…
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‘You just want to rewind and watch it again and again’: readers choose the most romantic moments in cinema https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/19/when-harry-met-sally-lady-and-the-tramp-readers-choose-most-romantic-moments-cinema #EternalSunshineoftheSpotlessMind #StarWars:TheEmpireStrikesBack #TheLastoftheMohicans #It'saWonderfulLife #BridgetJones'Diary #WaltDisneyCompany #WhenHarryMetSally #Avengers:Endgame #GoneWithTheWind #TheSoundofMusic #CinemaParadiso #Romancefilms #JerryMaguire
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‘You just want to rewind and watch it again and again’: readers choose the most romantic moments in cinema https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/19/when-harry-met-sally-lady-and-the-tramp-readers-choose-most-romantic-moments-cinema #EternalSunshineoftheSpotlessMind #StarWars:TheEmpireStrikesBack #TheLastoftheMohicans #It'saWonderfulLife #BridgetJones'Diary #WaltDisneyCompany #WhenHarryMetSally #Avengers:Endgame #GoneWithTheWind #TheSoundofMusic #CinemaParadiso #Romancefilms #JerryMaguire
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‘You just want to rewind and watch it again and again’: readers choose the most romantic moments in cinema https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/19/when-harry-met-sally-lady-and-the-tramp-readers-choose-most-romantic-moments-cinema #EternalSunshineoftheSpotlessMind #StarWars:TheEmpireStrikesBack #TheLastoftheMohicans #It'saWonderfulLife #BridgetJones'Diary #WaltDisneyCompany #WhenHarryMetSally #Avengers:Endgame #GoneWithTheWind #TheSoundofMusic #CinemaParadiso #Romancefilms #JerryMaguire
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‘You just want to rewind and watch it again and again’: readers choose the most romantic moments in cinema https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/19/when-harry-met-sally-lady-and-the-tramp-readers-choose-most-romantic-moments-cinema #EternalSunshineoftheSpotlessMind #StarWars:TheEmpireStrikesBack #TheLastoftheMohicans #It'saWonderfulLife #BridgetJones'Diary #WaltDisneyCompany #WhenHarryMetSally #Avengers:Endgame #GoneWithTheWind #TheSoundofMusic #CinemaParadiso #Romancefilms #JerryMaguire
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Die 5 besten Filme aus den 30er Jahren
Heute reisen wir in die Vergangenheit und suchen die 5 besten Filme aus den 30er Jahren.
https://passion-of-arts.de/die-5-besten-filme-aus-den-30er-jahren/
#Filmklassiker #Film #movie #Kino #Kinotipps #Kinoklassiker #Wicked #thewizardofoz #gonewiththewind #Horror #drama #romance
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#TakingABreakFromFilming
#GoneWithTheWind (1939)
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.#VivienLeigh #ClarkGable #OliviaDeHavilland with author #MargaretMitchell and producer #DavidOSelznick at the Loews Grand Theater, Atlanta, Georgia for the premiere (1939).
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#TakingABreakFromFilming
#GoneWithTheWind (1939)
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.#VivienLeigh #ClarkGable #OliviaDeHavilland with author #MargaretMitchell and producer #DavidOSelznick at the Loews Grand Theater, Atlanta, Georgia for the premiere (1939).
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10 Longest American Movies of All Time
#Collider #Top10 #TheIrishman #Movie #GoneWiththeWind #KillBill #TheTenCommandments -
10 Longest American Movies of All Time
#Collider #Top10 #TheIrishman #Movie #GoneWiththeWind #KillBill #TheTenCommandments -
10 Longest American Movies of All Time
#Collider #Top10 #TheIrishman #Movie #GoneWiththeWind #KillBill #TheTenCommandments -
10 Longest American Movies of All Time
#Collider #Top10 #TheIrishman #Movie #GoneWiththeWind #KillBill #TheTenCommandments -
10 Problematic Movies That Somehow Pass the Bechdel Test
#Collider #Top10 #Grease #DeathProof #GoneWiththeWind #BlueistheWarmestColor -
10 Problematic Movies That Somehow Pass the Bechdel Test
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#HattieMcDaniel's #AcademyAward Vanished 50 Years Ago, but It Will Finally be Replaced
https://www.theroot.com/hattie-mcdaniels-academy-award-vanished-50-years-ago-b-1850878241
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#HattieMcDaniel's #AcademyAward Vanished 50 Years Ago, but It Will Finally be Replaced
https://www.theroot.com/hattie-mcdaniels-academy-award-vanished-50-years-ago-b-1850878241
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#HattieMcDaniel's #AcademyAward Vanished 50 Years Ago, but It Will Finally be Replaced
https://www.theroot.com/hattie-mcdaniels-academy-award-vanished-50-years-ago-b-1850878241
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#HattieMcDaniel's #AcademyAward Vanished 50 Years Ago, but It Will Finally be Replaced
https://www.theroot.com/hattie-mcdaniels-academy-award-vanished-50-years-ago-b-1850878241
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Film Academy To Replace Hattie McDaniels’ ‘Gone With The Wind’ Oscar; Howard University To Get Statuette
#Awards #BreakingNews #Diversity #Oscars #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #GoneWithTheWind #HattieMcDanielhttps://deadline.com/2023/09/gone-with-the-wind-hattie-mcdanial-oscar-replaced-1235556572/
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Film Academy To Replace Hattie McDaniels’ ‘Gone With The Wind’ Oscar; Howard University To Get Statuette
#Awards #BreakingNews #Diversity #Oscars #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #GoneWithTheWind #HattieMcDanielhttps://deadline.com/2023/09/gone-with-the-wind-hattie-mcdanial-oscar-replaced-1235556572/
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Film Academy to Replace Hattie McDaniel’s Long-Missing ‘Gone with the Wind’ Oscar
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Film Academy to Replace Hattie McDaniel’s Long-Missing ‘Gone with the Wind’ Oscar
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Academy to Replace the Oscar for ‘Gone With the Wind’ Star Hattie McDaniel, 60 Years After It Went Missing
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Academy to Replace the Oscar for ‘Gone With the Wind’ Star Hattie McDaniel, 60 Years After It Went Missing
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Academy to Replace the Oscar for ‘Gone With the Wind’ Star Hattie McDaniel, 60 Years After It Went Missing
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Academy to Replace the Oscar for ‘Gone With the Wind’ Star Hattie McDaniel, 60 Years After It Went Missing
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On 15 December 1939, the romantic epic ‘Gone with the Wind’, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia. The film was based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell and tells the story of love and war in the American South during the Civil War. #GoneWithTheWind #VivienLeigh #ClarkGable #MargaretMitchell #Romance #AmericanSouth #CivilWar #AtlantaGeorgia #Trivia
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Olivia de Havilland has died at the age of 104. She was the last surviving star from "Gone with the Wind" (1939).
Symbolically, this year the novel "Gone with the Wind" has lost copyright protection and has become public domain.
#OliviadeHavilland #gonewiththewind #MargaretMitchell #hollywood #movie #cinema #copyright #publicdomain
