Ethel Waters
ActorEthel 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.
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Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
1999
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
Self (archive footage)
The Sound and the Fury
1959
Dilsey
The Heart Is a Rebel
1958
Gladys
Carib Gold
1956
Mom
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
Sunday School Teacher
The Member of the Wedding
1952
Berenice Sadie Brown
Pinky
1949
Dicey Johnson
- Soundies Festival
Soundies Festival
1945
Cabin in the Sky
1943
Petunia Jackson
Stage Door Canteen
1943
Ethel Waters
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
1942
Esther
Cairo
1942
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Let My People Live
1939
Bubbling Over
1934
Ethel Peabody
Gift of Gab
1934
Herself
Rufus Jones for President
1933
Mother of Rufus
On With the Show!
1929
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