Ep.02
Hattie in Hollywood Pt.1
Guest
Valerie C. Woods, is a writer/producer in television and film as well as a publisher, editor, and author. In 2022 she was a writer/co-executive producer on Season 1 of the Disney+ Emmy winning series, The Crossover. She also worked in the same capacity for the limited series The Big Cigar, now streaming on Apple TV+. Woods is currently developing, through her MCV Productions banner, a limited series based on Wrapped in Rainbows – The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, the award-winning biography written by Valerie Boyd.
PRODUCERS: Amy and Nancy Harrington, Vikki Mee
EDITORS: Amy and Nancy Harrington
https://www.thepassionistasproject.com/
Music: Airtone - reNovation
Toni Morrison Quote:
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
Transcript
Sources
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, Jill Watts
The Icon and the Outcast: Hattie McDaniel’s Epic Double Life, Vanity Fair, Hadley Hall Meares, 2021
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel – Whoopi Goldberg produced documentary, 2001
Walter’s Thing: The NAACP’S Hollywood Bureau of 1946 –– A Cautionary Tale, Thomas Cripps (2005)
Journal of Popular Film and Television - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/JPFT.33.2.116-125
Wikipedia
Expand your mind:
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel, Reshonda Tate