MCDANIEL HATTIE: (1895-1952) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1939 for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, thereby becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. A good vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of McDaniel seated in a full-length pose holding a bunch of roses in her lap and with various other large flower arrangements in the immediate background. Signed by McDaniel in bold blue fountain pen ink to the head of the image, 'Love & Success to "Annabel" from Hattie McDaniel' and dated 20th July 1940 in her hand. Rare. VG