The Corner

Nomenclature

“Nigger” was already thought disgraceful by Hollywood. Gone With the Wind (1939) does not use it. I have an impression that the great Hattie McDaniel refused to be in a movie that used it. Or did the producer surrender it as a bargaining chip with the censors to get in Rhett’s parting “damn”? Cinephiles please advise.

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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