 In the Warner Bros. film "In This Our Life" (1942), starring Bette Davis and directed by John Huston, McDaniel once again played a domestic, but one who confronts racial issues when her son, a law student, is wrongly accused of manslaughter.McDaniel was in the same studio's "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (1943), with Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis.In its review of the film, "Time" wrote that McDaniel was comic relief in an otherwise "grim study," writing, "Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie".