Ethel Waters
Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA — Oct 31 1896• Died Sep 01 1977
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Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha", "Stormy Weather" "Hottentot Potentate", and "Cabin in the Sky", as well as her version of the spiritual, "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. Description abo…
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Climax!
Aunt Kate
Route 66
Daniel Boone
Rachael
What's My Line?
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
The Great Adventure
Rit
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Barbara McNair Show
Self
Playwrights '56
General Electric Theater
Mother
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
The Beulah Show
Beulah
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Sunday School Teacher
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
The Heart is a Rebel
Gladys
Gift of Gab
Herself
On With the Show!
Ethel
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
Carib Gold
Mom
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
Let My People Live
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Soundies Festival