 After "Show Boat", she had major roles in MGM's "Saratoga" (1937), starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable; "The Shopworn Angel" (1938), with Margaret Sullavan; and "The Mad Miss Manton" (1938), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.She had a minor role in the Carole Lombard–Frederic March film "Nothing Sacred" (1937), in which she played the wife of a shoeshine man (Troy Brown) masquerading as a sultan.McDaniel was a friend of many of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland, and Clark Gable.