Ethel Waters
Acting
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 above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
2006Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
1999Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
1959The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
1958The Heart is a Rebel
Gladys
1956Carib Gold
Mom
1952The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
1949Pinky
Dicey Johnson
1943Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
1943Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
1943The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
1942Tales of Manhattan
Esther
1942Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
1939Let My People Live
1934Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
1934Gift of Gab
Herself
1933Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
1929On With the Show!
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