Everyone in the house would vote for Joe, from mammy and daddy to the kids.
He featured in one of Philip Mackie's elegant literary adaptations, Maupassant (1963), and did two turns on Z Cars in its early years, before a light comedy play in the First Night series, "My One True Love BBCBC, 1964), casting him as a successful businessman still ruled by his mother and tempted by his secretary (Yootha Joyce), turned out to be the pilot for Me Mammy.
Famously, the first black actress to win an Academy Award was Hattie McDaniel, for her portrayal of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind," in 1940.
Gone with the Wind is notable for the performance of Hattie McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Mammy, the kindly but stern house slave (or "proto-Madea," as I like to call her).
Not that Friel went in much for Irish mammies bringing beautiful transvestite American GIs home for tea to meet their sons.
Before her death, in 1952, at the age of fifty-nine, McDaniel played a hundred or so saucy maids, slaves, and cooks, but her Malena stands apart — even from the role of Mammy, in "Gone with the Wind" (1939), for which she won a best-supporting-actress Oscar.
Although I'd vaguely admired the show's raggedy charm, I had never made it through an entire episode until this week, when I watched 2013's opener for series three, Mammy's Spell, in which Mrs Brown suffers the after-effects of hypnosis, and Mammy Sutra, a recent live special.
Up the rafters the bat pup he cling to the mam's belly squeaking for milk and mammy she can drop the baby way down if she get scared.
I thought of my mantra, taken from Mammy's instructions to Scarlett while corseting her for the barbecue: "Just hold on and suck in".
She is probably most often associated with the supporting role of Mammy in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, a role for which she became the first African American to win an Academy Award.
