HATTIE McDANIEL
(cenotaph)
BORN
June 10, 1895
Wichita, Kansas
ENTERED INTO REST
October 26, 1952
AGE
57 Years 4 Months 16 Days
CAUSE OF DEATH
Breast Cancer
FINAL RESTING PLACE
Rosedale Memorial Park
Los Angeles, California
1940
First black actor to win an Academy Award.
Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.
Hattie had requested she be laid to rest here at Hollywood Memorial Park, but, at the time of her death in 1962 blacks were not allowed.
Finally, in 1999, this cenotaph was erected here overlooking the lagoon and across the road from the Fairbanks monument.
Hattie : The Life of Hattie McDaniel
by Carlton Jackson
George Washington Slept Here (1942)
September 01, 2004