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...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...On the new release, Bessie Smith — known, in a case of epithet inflation, as “Empress of the Blues” — is upstaged by Hattie Hart, who follows after her with “Cocaine Habit Blues”....
...Hattie the Bad By Jane Devlin and Joe Berger Puffin £5.99, 32 pages Hattie is not bad in a wimpy “forgot-to-tidy-her-room” kind of way. No, she’s “really, really bad”....
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