March 2025 Sports Card & Memorabilia Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/16/2025
Rare Hattie McDaniel Signed Index Card (Dated 8/5/1941). Hattie, who passed away in 1952, was an African American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. 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 addition to acting, McDaniel recorded 16 blues sides between 1926 and 1929 and was a radio performer and television personality; she was the first black woman to sing on radio in the United States. Although she appeared in more than 300 films, she received on-screen credits for only 83. Her best known other major films are Alice Adams, In This Our Life, Since You Went Away, and Song of the South.
Condition: EX+-NM
Rare Hattie McDaniel (d. 1952) Signed Index Card (Dated 8/5/1941) - Mammy From Gone With the Wind (First African American to Win an Oscar) - JSA Auction Letter
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