Hattie McDaniel, one of the great character actresses of American cinema, grew up in Denver and in 1939 became the first African-American to win an Academy Award. Larry Parr talks about his musical biography of McDaniel, "Hi Hat Hattie," now playing for the first time in the Denver area at the Aurora Fox Theater.
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