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Oscar Winner Hattie McDaniel Survived Hardships and Found ‘Peace’ and ‘Happiness’ Before Death
Hattie McDaniel found 'peace' before she died. The 'Gone With the Wind' actress faced a lifetime of hardships, author ReShonda Tate exclusively tells Closer.
“Any work she could find was just playing a maid, servant or slave,” explains author ReShonda Tate, whose new novel, The Queen of Sugar Hill(out January 30), dramatizes the events of Hattie’s difficult but inspirational life. Hattie, who had grown up as one of 13 children in a family Tate calls “rich in love” but little else, faced life from a practical standpoint. In 1942, the actress purchased a two-story, 17-room home in West Adams Heights, an L.A. neighborhood nicknamed Sugar Hill after Hattie and other Black performers, including Pearl Bailey and Louise Beavers, moved there.
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