West Adams Heights, Los Angeles
West Adams Heights is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains three Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
West Adams Heights neighborhood sign located at the intersection of Western Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway
West Adams Heights stone pillar located at Washington Boulevard and Harvard Boulevard
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006 became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
McDaniel in 1939
A 1939 publicity photo for Gone with the Wind including McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland, and Vivien Leigh
McDaniel in February 1940
McDaniel as Beulah in August 1951, a year before her death