Biographie

2 février 1893 · Saint Martin Parish, Louisiane, États-Unis

13 novembre 1969 · Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis (non divulguée)

Celeste Noel

Auditioned for the role of Mammy in Autant en emporte le vent (1939), but lost the role to Hattie McDaniel. Surviving screen tests of the pre-barbecue corset-lacing scene between Mammy and Scarlet, with Paulette Goddard and Joan Bennett as Scarlet, have survived.

Lively African-American stage and screen character actress. She ran away from home at the age of twelve to join up with a traveling carnival show, where she earned $7 per week singing and dancing. For the next two decades, she performed in vaudeville, circuses and night clubs before working in Hollywood.