Date and place of birth: 1895. died Wichita, Kansas, USA Given and place of: 1952, Woodland Hills, California, USA he has been exceptional, it is like woman who like attrice, has opened the road to future the generation of color actors and everyone remembers it for its great courage and its deep humanity. Daughter of a predicatore Batiste, sin from small demonstrated to possess an extraordinary voice, and very soon she was asserted like singer gospel. Nel.giro.di little years divenne succeeding one vocalist of large, much to be the first woman of color to sing in one radio American. It goes remembered that in the America of that period there was still a strong racism, and for the color persons it was much difficult one to emerge. But Hattie had one strongest personality and tucking the sleeves it succeeded to realize its aspirations. To the career canora it had placed side by side while that recitativa. It had participated in fact to some teatrale show and some wireless transmissions, in order then to begin one sfolgorante career to Hollywood. Its debut on the screen happened with a small role in Impatient Maiden (1932) of James Whale. Later on it interpreted modest

of relief in film as I' m Angel (are not an angel, 1933) with Mae West and Nothing Sacred (Null of serious, 1937) with Carole Lombard, before obtaining the succeeded overed-measure one with its skillful interpretation in the pluripremiato Gone With the Wind (Via with the wind, 1939) of Victor Fleming. In the film the attrice interpreted the role for which all today we remember it and we love it: the governor of color "Mammy", personage which he has given features of instinctive irony and bonarietà. For this stereotyped role a po', than not protagonist made them to earn meritatissimo an Oscar like better attrice and that Hattie has interpreted later on numerous times (like in Zenobia, 1939, next to Oliver Hardy), have been strongly attacked from many persons of color in how much guilty to guarantee and to justify the subordinate role that the racial discrimination assigned the black ones. 26 October 1952, little after to have interpreted of new the role of governing affable esuberante and of color in the television series Beulah (the 1950-53), beloved and unforgettable "Mammy" has extinguished because of a cancer.