SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY, INC.
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!
SOROR HATTIE MCDANIEL
Hattie McDaniel is best remembered today for her role in the film"Gone With The Wind". She won the 1939 Academy Award for bestsupporting actress for her portrayal of Mammy. She was the first African-American to be nominated for, and to win, an Academy Award. Hattie got her start in show business with her family's travelingBaptist tent show. As a teenager Hattie performed in the touringvaudeville outfit the Spikes Brothers Comedy Stars on the West Coast. In the early 1920s she was singing with George Morrison's Orchestra inDenver and toured the Pantages and Orpheum vaudeville circuit with them. She made her recording debut in 1926, but never had much of a recording career,but she was a popular live act. As the Blues craze died out in the late 1920s, Hattie started appearing in theatrical productions. She was in the touringcompany of "Showboat" from 1929 to 1930. In the early 1930s she settled in Hollywood and began her career as a film actress. She was almost always cast as a maid, cook, nanny or servant of some sort, these being the only types of available for African-Americans at the time. She appeared in over seventy movies during the 1930s. After winning the Academy Award in 1940 she continued to be cast as the maid for the rest of her life. She famously quipped "I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid." Despite the poor quality of her roles Hattie continued to open doors that had previously been closed to African-American performers. In 1947, she starred on radio in "The Beulah Show". In 1951, the show moved to television, and Hattie starred in the first three episodes until she discovered she had cancer and became too ill to continue working. She died of breast cancer in 1952.
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Notable Sigma Gamma Sorority, Inc. Members
There are several notable women who are members of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
- Vanessa Bell Armstrong - gospel music artist
- Louise Beavers - actress (film Imitation of Life, 1934)
- 'Lindy' Corrine Claiborne Boggs - first female U.S. re presentative from Louisiana
- Corrine Brown - U.S. Representative Florida
- Eugenia Charles - former Prime Minister of Dominica an d first woman elected head of state in the Americas
- Lee Chamberlin - actress
- Alice Childress- author of "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A S andwich"
- Ellia English - actress/producer, (sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show')
- Carolyn Tyler Guidry - second elected female bishop of the AME Church
- Anna Maria Horsford - actress, (sitcoms Amen (TV series) and The Wayans Bros.)
- Cynthia Horner - editor of Right On! magazine
- Maysa Leak - jazz music artist
- Mother Love - daytime talk show host.
- Marilyn McCoo - singer/actress
- Hattie McDaniel - first African American actress to be nominated and to win an Academy Award-winning for her supporting role in the 1939 epic movie Gone with the Wind
- MC Lyte - (born Lana Michele Moorer) - Hip-Hop recording artist
- Kelly Price - Grammy-nominated singer
- Victoria Rowell - foster care activist and actress The Young & The Restless
- Tonya Lee Williams - actress, The Young & The Restle ss
Central Regio
n News: Cin cinnati, OH Here We Come....Final preparations are being made for the 71th Annual Central Re gion Conference that will take place March 17-20, 2011 in Cincinnati, OH. For final preparations and additional information, click here. See you there!!!!
CHAPTER NEWS and SIGMA ANNOUNCEMENTS
Happy Birthday to all Sorors who celebrate a birthday th
is month!
- Soror Kelly Davidson-February 6
- Soror Carolyn Dixon-February 21
- Soror Avra Tucker-February 28
- Soror Alisha Henry-February 1, 2002
- Soror Lynette Bennett-February 1, 2003
- Soror Dana Johnson-February 1, 2003
- Soror Lisa Dickerson-February 1, 2003
- Soror Angelique Clinkscale-February 22, 1989
- Soror Kelly Davidson-February 22, 1989
- Soror Twana Arnold-February 25
- Soror Adrianne Edwards-Keaton-February 28, 1998
- Soror Angela Tucker-February 28, 1998
- Soror Mychal Featherstone-February 28, 2009
Until Next Time...POODLES!!!
