May 12 movie: The Great Lie. I love this movie. Mary Astor is the perfect foil to Bette Davis. Oh yeah, and George Brent is in it too. And Hattie McDaniel, as the maid in some strange alternate universe where 1930s Maryland is exactly the same as the antebellum deep South (down to the live oaks and Spanish moss). Was McDaniel ever in a movie where she didn't play the maid? She was a great actress and someday I would like to see her get to do something besides wait on the stars.
the great lie
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I was looking thru Hattie McDaniel's credits on IMDB and the vast majority do seem to be either maids or cooks. She does some excellent non-maid work in the 1936 version of Showboat.