Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel

"They think the public more naïve than it actually is"

Profiles the life of performer Hattie McDaniel, the first Black American to win an Oscar, and her unapologetic resilience in the face of critics.

Whoopi Goldberg

(Self - Host)

Hattie McDaniel

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Arthur

(Self (archive footage))

Fay Bainter

(Self (archive footage))

Willie Best

(Self (archive footage))

Hugh Butts

(Self - Psychiatrist)

Nell Carter

(Self)

Claudette Colbert

(Self (archive footage))

Thomas Cripps

(Self - Film Historian)

Bing Crosby

(Self (archive footage))

Gerald Early

(Self - Cultural Historian)

Clark Gable

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Harlow

(Self (archive footage))

Arthur Hohl

(Self (archive footage))

Lena Horne

(Self (archive footage))

Hedy Lamarr

(Self (archive footage))

Vivien Leigh

(Self (archive footage))

Laurence Olivier

(Self (archive footage))

Charlene Regeste

(Self - Film Historian)

David O. Selznick

(Self (archive footage))

Bobby Short

(Self)

Francesca Thompson

(Self - Film Historian)

Mae West

(Self (archive footage))

Jane White

(Self)

Walter White

(Self - Head of the NAACP (archive footage))