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