Hollywood Royalty - The Story of Hattie McDaniel in ReShonda Tate's The Queen of Sugar Hill
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Listen in as I chat with ReShonda Tate, the author of dozens of novels including The Queen of Sugar Hill, ReShonda's first historical novel. It's listed in the Film category on Art In Fiction.
View the Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aIofW073t_U
Highlights include:
Why write a novel about Hattie McDaniel, famous for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind and being the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1939
Hattie's famous line about how she'd rather play a maid than be a maid.
The novel as a story about a career woman before her time…
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