Etta McDaniel

Etta McDaniel

Born: December 1, 1890
Died: January 13, 1946
in Wichita, Kansas, USA
Etta McDaniel was born on December 1, 1890 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Son of Dracula (1943), The Great Man's Lady (1942) and Johnny Doughboy (1942). She died on January 13, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sister of players Hattie McDaniel and Sam McDaniel.

Movies for Etta McDaniel...

Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Etta - Texas' Maid (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: Bluebell
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Son of Dracula
Title: Son of Dracula
Character: Sarah
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Magnolia
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
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They Came to Blow Up America
Title: They Came to Blow Up America
Character: Theresa
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
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Johnny Doughboy
Title: Johnny Doughboy
Character: Mammy
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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American Empire
Title: American Empire
Character: Willa May
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Delilah
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Mokey
Title: Mokey
Character: Cindy Molishus
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
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You're in the Army Now
Title: You're in the Army Now
Character: Della
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
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The Pittsburgh Kid
Title: The Pittsburgh Kid
Character: Magenta
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
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Thieves Fall Out
Title: Thieves Fall Out
Character: Blossom
Released: May 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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Golden Hoofs
Title: Golden Hoofs
Character: Divinity
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Kelopatra Johnson
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Know For Sure
Title: Know For Sure
Character: supporting role
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Ophie
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Carolina Moon
Title: Carolina Moon
Character: Mammy
Released: July 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
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The Farmer's Daughter
Title: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: Anna
Released: March 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Lydia
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Black Mammy
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Dove
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character: Tulip
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Mammy (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Keep Smiling
Title: Keep Smiling
Character: Violet
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
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Termites of 1938
Title: Termites of 1938
Character: Mandy - The Maid (uncredited)
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.
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Man Bites Lovebug
Title: Man Bites Lovebug
Character: The Maid
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pretends she's fallen for him, infuriating the friend.Charley must stay overnight, and unexpected complications put him in the wife's bedroom.
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Living on Love
Title: Living on Love
Character: Lizbeth
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Samantha
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Agnes (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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Sweetheart of the Navy
Title: Sweetheart of the Navy
Character: Lily, the Cook
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Singer Joan Whitney, called the "Sweetheart of the Navy" by sailors, is struggling to re-open the Snug Harbor Cafe. After her partner, Richard, skips town with the money owed to their creditors, the club opens unceremoniously. Two of Joan's sailor friends, Andy and Pete, offer to help her raise money for the club by staging a fight with Bumper Martin, boxing champion of the fleet. At Andy's request, straight-laced yeoman Eddie Harris replaces him in the upcoming fight. Andy and Pete then intimidate or coerce the sailors into betting on the fight, promising to give Joan the profits. Navy Commander Lodge, who is grooming Eddie for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is against the fight, however, and Joan decides to "vamp" Eddie to make him fight.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Wife of Mr. J. Brown #2 (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Mile a Minute Love
Title: Mile a Minute Love
Character: Eunice
Released: April 5, 1937
Type: Movie
William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit mankind-and, incidentally, to win an upcoming motorboat race.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Woman Getting Marriage License (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Smartest Girl in Town
Title: Smartest Girl in Town
Character: Phoebe
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
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The Magnificent Brute
Title: The Magnificent Brute
Character: Lavolia
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
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The Glory Trail
Title: The Glory Trail
Character: Mandy Johnson
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate sword at the scene.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Molly
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Palm Springs
Title: Palm Springs
Character: Mammy
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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The Lonely Trail
Title: The Lonely Trail
Character: Mammy
Released: May 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Title: The Prisoner of Shark Island
Character: Aunt Rosabelle
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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The Lawless Nineties
Title: The Lawless Nineties
Character: Mandy Lou Schaefer
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.
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Personal Maid's Secret
Title: Personal Maid's Secret
Character: Maid
Released: October 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Sarah
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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Smoking Guns
Title: Smoking Guns
Character: Clementine
Released: June 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.