4 Times When Oscar Levant Gave Zero F***s

"An American in Paris," (1951)

"The Bandwagon," (1953)

"The Barkleys of Broadway," (1949)

"An American in Paris," (1951)

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Hattie MacDaniel

• Chairman of the "Negro Division" of the Hollywood Victory Committee
• Performed with the USO
• Made personal appearances at military hospitals
• Performed at war bond rallies
• Member of American Women's Voluntary Services
• First African American Academy Award winner (Best Supporting Actress, Gone With the Wind, 1939)
• First African American to sing on the radio (Professor George Morrison's Negro Orchestra, 1915)
• First African American to star in her own radio show
• While on set of "Gone With the Wind," pressured director Victor Fleming to take out all uses of the word n****r in the script
• Produced an all-female, all-black minstrel theater company that mocked popular black stereotypes 
• With acting wages, bought instruments for a low-income school to save their music program

Additional Sources

Hattie McDaniel winning Best Supporting Actress

The History Chicks Episode 50 Hattie McDaniel

#ManCrushMonday Reginald Gardiner

While watching Everybody Sing (1938) Friday night, I have fallen back in avid love with Reginald Gardiner. Don't ask me why. While he might have been typecasted as the goofy British gentleman or butler, it's apparent that he enjoyed doing it. The typecast has brought about fantastic roles such as Beverly Leslie in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (lampooning Noel Coward to perfection) and Barbara Stanwyck's fake husband in "Christmas in Connecticut." Perhaps it's because he is both mysterious in his gentleman status yet utterly ridiculous. Or maybe it's those eyes.