If one should love to go see Miss Hattie's old mansion house, then it is at 2203 Harvard Blvd just South of the 10 freeway and East of Arlington Avenue...
Hattie famously said. "I'd rather make $750.00 a week playing a maid rather than being a maid making $75.00 a week. In the 1930s $750.00 a week was a fortune. She could easily afford a mansion.
@@Emilio743-e1h I heard about a black family who purchased a beach front home in California in 1920 for $1,200 and later had the house taken from them and only given a small amount of money for it. But $1,200 in 1920 was only about $15k in today's money. So imagine buying a BEACH FRONT HOUSE in southern California for only $15k today. Or for that matter buying a livable house ANYWHERE in this country for that amount of money. It would never happen.
@@wrestlerx8494 , yes and thanks for responding because I had already heard about that family (the Bruce) and just last week the governor of California signed a proclamation giving back their land(valued at about $75 million) on Huntington Beach (an upscale suburb near Los Angeles) and orally issuing a public apology to them; it's never too late to seek justice !!
@@Emilio743-e1h you will not get a livable house anywhere that I know of for only $15k, but that was basically all they paid for that beach front house in 1920. I don't even know how because it's so expensive to live in that area.
The moral of the story is.....her character was deeply loved by the the O'Hara family in the movie & she was adored in life by many. The O'Hara family was Irish & English. An unlikely match up as the English enslaved the Irish before Africans. Most Irish treated their servants and if they were technically 'slaves' well as they knew the suffrage. Many hired or 'bought' them to keep them from harm. It is how patriots worked around the greedy English elites. Aka underground railroad...Many loved them like family. If you're are on 1,000 acres the families depend on each other, deliver each others babies, doctor each other.
Hattie McDaniel was like a Narrator in GWTW. She had more screen time than Rhett Butler, Melanie, and Ashley Wilkes. That is a milestone for 1939. I admire her as an actress Very Much. She is a Hero. Her Mammy character is BELOVED.
Charles Neely...you need to read up on how she was treated in Hollywood before you start in on the south. Which you obviously hate. She could not even get buried where she wanted to there. GWTW was written by a southerner, who wrote the mammy character with great respect. The book begins with mammy and ends with her. Along with other good black characters. Sam. Who saves Scarlett. Pork...who she gives her father's watch to. Maybe you should actually read the book. And sweep off your own front porch first.
HATTIE MCDANIEL WAS IS & HAD MORE CLASS IN THAT ROOM THAN OVER 98% OF THE 2 FACED PEOPLE WHO HAD 1/2 THE TALENT HATTIE MCDANIEL PROVED THAT NIGHT!! P.S NOT THAT IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, BUT I'M WHITE.
Hattie McDaniel was a very talented actress and it's hard to imagine what she and other black actors had to endure throughout their careers. She was a very dignified, classy person as well - someone to be admired - and she'll never be forgotten.
you don't have to "imagine" it; its well documented in many books, including autobiographies by many of those who lived thru it in Hollywood first hand.
Cynthia Dickerson Of course, Black Actors and Black Actresses, for that time were not able to compete with their white counterparts. It was a dream come true to make it in Hollywood, even playing roles of subservient maids, butlers....and slaves! Whatever image they created, it could not....and would not be comparable to White Hollywood. For Hattie McDaniel, owning a house like this was her wildest dream come true. It was not just to impress others....but to make herself happy glad; coming from such humble beginnings and working as hard as she did to achieve what only whites were allowed to do. Read her biography...it is very interesting. LOL... Obviously I am a HUGE fan of hers! Love that she and Clark Gable became such good friends. Although I was very young at the time, I remember how sad my grandmother was when she passed away.
She was rich evidently and rubbed noses with the best of names. Was well known and certainly was accepted. People would have loved her house. Did he know which house? Many rich mansions are now dilapidated. People cannot normally afford things like that. Al worked out, and she made her way just fine. She lived with the finest.
Narvelan Coleman jeez never satisfied, everything will always be because the white man made more, has more, did more, knows more. I bet it’s not because he’s not sitting around looking for other cultures to blame for his lack of ump to want things in life. No, it’s easier to blame other why I’m so oppressed!! 🙄🙄
Thank you, this was so very kind and heart felt because people of color have gone through so much in this country just because we are od darker skin, thank you, God Bless You.♡♡♡♡♡♡
Ladiluv is,to bad tis please should be fix nice and bring tourist make,mony,is beauryful,and part,of,history,in,honor,to,the,african,american,,comunity
I love your video and the time and effort you took to tell her story. And to make her present by thanking her. I appreciate you for educating us on what we may not find in a history book. I hope that many doors are opened for you. God bless.
Nice history on Hattie. I wonder if someone would buy it and make a museum of stars from the 30’s thru the 50’s. Pictures of there parties and nights out. Very informative. Thank you, sir.
I love Hatties saying .I'd rather make $750.00 a week paying a maid then being a maid making $75.00.I admire Hattie for becoming the first black artist to become known and have her name on beside all the other HollyWood stars👍.Rest In Peace Hattie.You May Be Gone But Your Not Forgotten. AMEN GODBLESS YOU 🙏🕊🦋🌹💖🌹🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊.🌹🦋🕊🙏
What evidence do you have to support a statement that is sure to invite controversy? Throughout the whole of his career no such description of his ethnicity surfaced. Did you consult Wiki, for starters?
I google earth the address and saw he was filming the side of the house,. the front is almost across the street from the antebellum house, and it still has a Asian look to it
that is what I thought, I got to see it through Google earth, still pretty nice but bet it and the neighborhood without the apartments and I 10 on top of them , was a whole lot nicer in the 40's
My step grandchildren owned a house in that area it was very grand with an Olympic size swimming pool I remember it well when she died it was sold and split btw my steofather and his two siblings
Dilapidated? That house looks better than what I live in! It even has beautiful landscaping. The one across the street which you also called dilapidated looks fine as well. Is that your favorite word?
CLARK GABLE The original “tall, dark and handsome” actor didn’t hide his Black and Native American heritage. And when he saw “colored” and “white” bathrooms on the set of Gone With The Wind, he refused to continue working until all of the cast members were treated equally. That's why he had breakfast there every morning he probably spent the night.😉
Baldwin hills Andy village to this day is a beautiful place the whole west Adams district has such a rich history a lot of very famous people of all races once lived in these areas 😃
I am so glad that Hattie was able to get out of poverty and was able to buy that beautiful home! I like Clark Gable even more that he was her friend and was a regular at her home. RIP Harrie!
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A STATUE OF HATTIE McDANIEL ON AN AWARD IN HONOUR OF MS McDANIEL, THEY HAVE THE E.G.O.T.S. & THAT AWARD SEEMS TO GO TO EVERY FLAVOR OF THE MONTH. I HOPE THE KENNEDY AWARD CENTER WOULD HAVE ONE, "" THE HATTIE McDANIEL AWARD" FOR EVERYONE WHO MADE IT BEYOND ALL ODD'S OF ANY CREED, COLOR, OR PREFERENCE. HATTIE McDANIEL WOULD BE EXTREMELY PROUD!!!!👍
These homes of black celebrities of the past need to be turned into a historic site. The city of Los Angeles is so rich in black history. We can find a way to re-create and revitalize a positive image of the African-American Heritage in Los Angeles.
Her famous quotes, “I rather play a maid in a film and get paid more money, than be a maid in real life and not get paid enough & not be respected”. LOVE IT! we do what we have to and are allowed to do to survive!!!!
the real quote is" She was often criticized for playing the part of a maid, she answered her critics "Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid, if I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week actually being one."
I'm very glad to see that she had a wonderful house. Clark Gable was the only actor in the bunch that realized what a jewel she was - and what true hospitality and love really are... ♥️
Beautiful plants and flowers. Someone takes care of her home. THANK YOU for doing this. A fascinating story of enjoying the fruits of her outstanding labor. A star inside and out. Clark Gable must have loved the time he spent with Hattie and her amazing friends!
I read once that she gave great parties, and that Clark Gable loved her collard greens!! When they were filming GWTW they tried to make Ms. Hattie use a separate restroom from the white actors and Mr Gable wasn't having that! He pitched a fit!!! (tall dark&handsome)😍
It's such a shame that her last wishes were not met thanks to the hideous owners of Hollywood Cemetery at the time (1952). They refused to bury a black person in their cemetery. In 1999 the new owners of Hollywood Cemetery offered to have her remains moved and buried there but her family refused. They instead installed a monument in her memory.
in 1952 it was just a owner, actually under his ownership , towards the end, more people were being moved out than into the cemetery, but all that changed with the new owners, its very nice now
LB, yes, but not Sam. Sam was an independent producer, always one step ahead of the creditors, and although his made up last name, "Goldwyn" is part of MGM, he never was. His last name was Goldfish, and the made up name is a combination of a previous partner's name, Selwyn, who sold Sam out, but he liked the name Goldwyn and kept it. I think both of you are trolls, but wanted to supply some data to your screed.
Here in 2018 the Hattie McDaniel house is not dilapidated. I go by there at least once a month. The house across the street with the columns is the Beckett Mansion and was built in either 1905 or 1910 for Dr. Wesley Beckett, a chairman of the trustees of the Los Angeles County Medical Association and member of the board of trustees at USC. It was purchased two years ago and is going through an extensive renovation as we speak.
Vwjl1207, thank you very much for identifying the "Beckett Mansion". I was in the Sugar Hill area some years ago when Nelson Mandela came to Los Angeles. I participated with the Choir of FAME Church to providing music for Mr. Mandela's visit. Looking around the neighborhood, I was taken aback by the beautiful old homes in the area. I noticed that the Beckett Mansion was in very poor condition at that time. One of the members of Fame said she had heard the old mansion was going to be torn down. I thought that was really a shame. Los Angeles has a lot of beautiful property that should be preserved. I don't know who bought the place but I am glad they are fixing it up. Its really a nice house. I have not been in the area in a while, but I may drive through soon just to see what improvements have been made!
@@lawrencemoore3863 Nat King Cole lived in Hancock Park a few miles away. His house is located at 401 S. Muirfield Rd in Los Angeles. Hancock Park is absolutely beautiful.
It just shows the love and respect that Miss Hattie McDaniel received from Clark Gable. I always heard she was very generous and never turned into a diva because of her fame. She stole the show, so to speak, in GWTW. That's one of my all time favorites.
I just don't understand why some of the black mega stars like Oprah , Will Smith, Tyler Perry, Steve Harvey and so on don't get together and fix that hose as a museum to a black trail blazer. Whites are always renovating an old place with history (and they do black history too). We were in St Louis Missouri and got chance to go to the Scott Joplin house that had been totally fix over and has made the state register as an historic place. Clyde Beck, my hat is off to you sir for such a nice video dedicated to Hattie McDaniel.
sthpac69 Hattie McDaniel gave such a moving performance that she was rightfully awarded an Oscar. Renovating her home is not the responsibility of black people . It’s all of ours .if deemed important. If every expensive need of black people were to become the responsibility of wealthy black people then there would not be wealthy black people. People are people regardless of skin color. Houses have their time and they break down like people do. She will never be forgotten because gone with the wind will never be forgotten. Thank you Hattie !
Do you know how sad it was back then that when she went to the Academy Awards to pick up her award they made her go though the back door. Hattie deserved the same respect as anyone else! She's with Jeus & has left all that crap behind her. People should just be people & not skin colors. We are ALL God's people. Rest in peace Miss Hattie.
I am happy to tell you this story is not true. Hattie herself said she entered where everyone else did and she was seated with everyone else in "Gone With the WInd." She also got an ovation when she entered. Although the Oscars had not yet been given out everyone knew already Hattie had won She loved giving big dinner parties and there are photos of them and both white and black actors, many of them famous such as Janet Leigh and Esther Williams, are there.
@@waynebrasler and she was allowed to be there because of CLARK CABLE. He told the board of elections that if Hattie could NOT attend..then neither would he. So Hattie accepted her Oscar herself!!
Ruth Shelton there will always be the likes of you who no matter what is being said will make EVERYTHING about skin color!!! 🙄🙄 Do you know how sad it is that this very lie is STILL being spoken although it’s been proven false by Mattie herself, yet most black people won’t give it up! Keep storing the pot wanting to make it true so bad!! I’m surprised I’m even reading about any black actors or prominent black people from the 30-40-50’s I mean I thought everyone was so oppressed and still oppressed ………
I agree Latoya.Why couldn't he just pause at her house and get out a little maybe.Not quite sure which house is hers. But the neighborhood is beautiful.
Charess Larraga these historical homes are incredibly expensive to maintain. Not even the wealthy want the responsibility... You can probably get em for a steal because the maintenance costs far exceed the purchase price
Charess Larraga that's 9 Minutes of my life I'll never get back I can't get a refund good thing it wasn't a movie I'd be screaming at the manager for a refund.
Hattie home just abandoned , that's so sad . Foolishness to me , The family should have memorial there for sight seeing people could pay for the taxes and up keep . But , there's something in her will that stated her home wasn't to be sold an trust fund was set up to pay taxes at least . But you never know truth so we speculate . She was a wonderful person and great actress ! She is missed by many people . Rip Hattie
I google earth the address, what he was showing was the side, the front was almost across from the Antebellum home he kept talking about, it looked pretty good on google and I could see the hints of Asian style still on the house
Needs to be restored for everybody to see Hattie McDaniel was a trailblazer and did groundbreaking rolls someone asked her once does it bother her playing a maid she said no because I'm getting paid more playing a maid in the movies then I am if I actually worked as one. She needs to be remembered...
I love her so much ! The roles she played ....she was AMAZING ! You can feel her warmth coming through the screen. It’s a shame the studios did not value each actor in the same way they did their headliners. Thank you for the wonderful information !
@@fivepoints That voice she used on Hattie McDaniel's television show was a little strange. Gee, I hope that wasn't her real voice. Maybe it was just the character she was playing.
She was great too in Alice Adams (1935) as the take-no-prisoners desultorily misserving dinner maid of Katherine Hepburn's pretentious character trying to impress her rich date Fred MacMurray. And in The Littlest Rebel as another Mammy variation, a plantation cook trying to outwit Shirley Temple's serial sneak swipes of her freshbaked cookies, but then getting floored and floured by a banged kitchen door.
Made so many movies that was wonderful I like to see a lot of them but I don't know the names of my guess I'll look it up on Google I loved her and now I'm Gone With the Wind though
"Sugar Hill" Like many of the African-Americans in the entertainment industry, Hattie made her home in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. In previous times, the district had been home to doctors, lawyers, and railroad barons. In the Depression era, the area had fallen into hard times, with many residents needing to either sell their homes or rent out rooms in them. By the 1940s, the African-American entertainment community began purchasing homes in the district, nicknaming it ‘Sugar Hill’. Some property owners reacted to their new neighbors by adding restrictive covenants to their deeds. The covenants either prohibited African-Americans from purchasing a property or inhabiting inside once purchased. The practice was declared illegal by the US Supreme Court in 1948.
When I was a little girl, well after 1948, my white grandparents bought 10 empty lots in Beverly Hills. The day before escrow closed, we all went to see the land and hear what Papa had planned. Some neighbors saw me and my Ethiopian dad, and the sale was dropped. Fortunately, they found 12 lots in a line in Los Feliz-Silverlake on a cliff side which lent itself even better to his idea of a family compound and no covenants were attached.
@@meeeka Terrible, but if it was after 1948, it would have been illegal for that to happen, and even prior to 1948, there were 100's of cases won in LA County against this sort of discrimination. ACLU lawyer, Loren Miller, won the 1944 case Anderson vs Auseth, and you can read about it here: Making a "black Beverly Hills": The struggle for housing equality in modern Los Angeles docplayer.net/88421106-Making-a-black-beverly-hills-the-struggle-for-housing-equality-in-modern-los-angeles.html
I LOVE Miss Hattie McDaniel! She was & is my FAVORITE actress! She had more acting ability & screen presence than any of the so called actresses today. I would have paid a BUNCH of money to watch & hear her read a phonebook! And NO 1 could rock a red silk petticoat & do it justice like Miss McDaniel. RIP, Miss McD. Thanks for the memories.
Samuel Goldwyn and Louie B Mayer CREATED segregation. They were Racist scumbags and they used the media to promote their cruel ideas. They, Peddowood elites wanted only Aryan Whites working and living by them. Surprized?
Thank you for taking your time and for all of your effort to put this video together for those of us that appreciate Hattie and her talent. It lets some of us see something about her personal life that we wouldn't otherwise be privy to. Also, there is absolutely nothing annoying pertaining to this video and most definitely nothing that is derogatory. You did a great job paying tribute to this wonderful lady that gave, and through video and radio recordings, continues to give us much joy and entertainment.
Thank you for this history. PS. Ms.Mcdaniel's always stole the show. After she won the best Oscar as a first black actress 1939 ( GWTW) supporting role, it took 51 years later for Whoppi Goldberg to win the second for Ghost. Sad.
1:30, the second house is the house my mother grew up in. It is actually an apartment building but the front is a house. Her Aunt now lives in it after her parents died.
"The People Under the Stairs House " in on Harvard located 2 houses down from Hattie's. Also, the greek revival house that the narrator referred to as "antebellum " was used in "Running with scissors ". The house used as the exterior as Fisher and Sons Funeral Home in "Six Feet under" is about 2 blocks around the corner
In L.A., ALMOST everybody doesn't give a good goddamn about their local history, nothing's preserved, these places are always torn down, never any historical plaques placed at important locations.... It makes me nauseous how these local politicians don't preserve anything for posterity...... In TWENTY YEARS all these short sighted pricks shall be fined and committed FOR DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY!!!!!!!!!
All this history, and an idiot finds time to talk about the guy doing the video...shame on you, and we can tell that you were not interested in his black hollywood history lesson but a lot of us were....great Job clyde.
The Orpheum Theatre is stopping showing Gone With the Wind now, because some viewers maybe "sensitive " to it. Go figure! That allowed Ms. McDaniel to win an Oscar and buy this!
61shark I accept it as a shameful time with disgraceful slave owners who had evil and wicked hearts. Some of those people you’re suggesting should leave have ancestors that tilled more soil than you ever have. GOD and President Obama had the last laugh, though. Shut up.
Hattie only lived here from 1941-1947 or 48. She had moved to 3341 Country Club Dr in the late 40's until her death in 1952.Another interesting fact is that she resided at 2177 W 31 Street at the time she won her Oscar.
Thank you for posting this! I love her work and went to see her house. My brothers are also in Rosedale Cemetery not far from her resting place. My brother's name is Rhett (Basil) Butler!
I'm so glad they erected a monument to her in the cemetery that refused her burial. Nice to know how close she and Clark Gable were. Loved their banter in the movie.
When I watched gone with the wind the character I liked the most was mamie’s especially the scene where she is in the bedroom trying to make scarlet eat her food and adjusting her dress to not show too much of her shoulders, I just love that scene. She really deserved that Oscar.
What a beautiful old house, it must have been amazing back when she bought it and lived there. Just imagine how beautifil it could be if one restored it. She lived an amazing life. Rip Hattie. Ty for doing this video.
Could be the missing house with the right address was located behind one of the other large houses with the nearest address number. Happens in California neighborhoods. House might still be there with the correct address number.
looks like when I google earth the house and neighborhood, its right on top of the I-10 and also looks like in the 60's or 70s someone came in and built big Apartments in this lovely neighborhood
Yep, that would do it. The highway isn't a big problem but app blocks will kill an otherwise great place to live. It could still come back but investors would have to get rid of the apartments.
that is one huge freeway, I have been on it, tons of cars and trucks, the noise would be pretty loud blocks in, but the huge old Apartments are really what ruined the area more than likely
that they do, but in Beverly Hills they knock them down and build new ones, but they also do not have a major SoCal Freeway in their back yards and these huge blocks of older Apartments that likely went in during the early 60s that basically finished it off. You can hear the I-10 freeway while he is talking
Island Mississippi girl now 50 years in California but I headed man me once myself and I just remember loving her and she looked about the same my mom was pretty skinny so I'll remember the baby I like it put my had on her shop for breast LOL but what I remember is her spirituality and her commanding personality when she disciplined us and I just adored and loved her she was with me more than my own mother was I will always remember her and love and adoration and when I saw Gone With the Wind I thought oh there is my Manny. There's nothing to be offended about boats this was a loving dynamic in the south and unfortunately I do now understand the controversy but I just remembered in my heart it impacted me in a positive way but I do appreciate the evolving nature of what needs to be done and I truly agree with this. But I just remember a loving impact and respect for people that I loved that's how far it went when I was a child
