Hattie McDaniel is based on the real-life actor who is best known for her role as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Hattie was rumored to have been in a relationship with Tallulah Bankhead. In the show this is portrayed as a fact.
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