- Auditioned for the role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), but lost the role to Hattie McDaniel. Surviving screen tests of the pre-barbecue corset-lacing scene between Mammy and Scarlet, with Paulette Goddard and Joan Bennett as Scarlet, have survived.
- Lively African-American stage and screen character actress. She ran away from home at the age of twelve to join up with a traveling carnival show, where she earned $7 per week singing and dancing. For the next two decades, she performed in vaudeville, circuses and night clubs before working in Hollywood.
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