Moms Mabley, billed as 'The Funniest Woman in the World,' and one of the most successful as 'Amazing Grace.' Moms Mabley is Grace Teasdale Grimes, a Baltimore, Maryland widow who discovers that the local mayoral election is a front for pilfering funds from her neighborhood by the incumbent mayor and his cronies. Stirred to Butterfly McQueen ('Prissy' in GONE WITH THE WIND), Slappy White (TV's SANFORD AND SON) and Stepin Fetchit (Dimples, BEND OF THE RIVER).