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