Hattie McDaniel News

Vickilyn Reynolds will reprise her performance as Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel in Hattie & Me for a one-night-only engagement on Aug.

Tyrone Patrick will accompany Reynolds on piano. Reynolds will perform a selection of songs and present the making of the music from "Hattie...What I Need You To Know!" that was originally written, developed and massaged out of a vision to recreate the often-overlooked McDaniel.

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild voted to declare its opposition to the planned closure of an historic motion picture home where many well-known actors have spent their last days.

Applause by David A. Rosenberg It was Hollywood's golden year, 1939, the year Garbo laughed; Clark Gable said the then-shocking, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"; Ingrid Bergman and Greer Garson became stars in their first American films; Hattie McDaniel was not only the first African-American to win an Oscar , she was the first ever to sit ...

Miss de Havilland was nominated for an acting Oscar five times, winning for To Each His Own and The Heiress .

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2009 with 204 to follow. The moon is waning.

Since this talented thespian was born during the month of June, she's on our mind today.

CONFINED within four walls of a rehab center room for the last few weeks, I have found myself overdosing on television.

Dear Ken: Tell me a little bit about Hattie McDaniel, the African-American actress who won an Oscar for her work in "Gone With the Wind.