She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ... This representation of the Mammy persisted throughout the 20th century with films such as Imitation of Life and Gone with the Wind. ... The obvious character to follow would be the Coon who was closely related to the Sambo in intelligen...

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