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Mammy's Cupboard", 1940 novelty architecture restaurant in Adams County, Mississippi. A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting Black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, among nursing children. [2] The fictionalized mammy character is often visualized as a dark-skinned woman with a motherly personality.
Mammy Two Shoes is a fictional character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons. She is a middle-aged African American woman based on the mammy stereotype . As a partially-seen character , her head was rarely seen, except in a few cartoons including Part Time Pal (1947), A Mouse in the House (1947), Mouse Cleaning (1948), and Saturday Evening Puss (1950).
However, CBS claimed it was an infringement of its rights to the show and its characters. The tour soon came to an end. [42] By 1958, Lillian, who started out as a blues singer, returned to music with a nightclub act. [43] Randolph was selected to play Bill Cosby's character's mother in his 1969 television series, The Bill Cosby Show. [8]
She is the only character capable of defeating Abner in hand-to-hand combat. Pappy Yokum: Born Lucifer Ornamental Yokum, Pappy is the patriarch of a family. Pappy is so lazy and ineffectual he doesn't even bathe himself. Mammy is regularly seen scrubbing Pappy in an outdoor oak tub ("Once a month, rain or shine").
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
[11] [1] [2] The character eventually became controversial due to being based on the Mammy archetype, and was retired from the series in 1953. [12] [13] Gene Deitch opted not to use Mammy's character in his shorts, as he felt a "stereotypical black housekeep" character "didn't work in a modern context."
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Mammy, starring Al Jolson; Mammy, a French drama film; Mammy (Gone with the Wind), a character in Gone with the Wind; Mammy Two Shoes, a recurring character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons; Mammy yokum, a white hillbilly from the comic strip Li'l Abner "My Mammy", a U.S. popular song, a huge hit for Al Jolson