Ethel Waters

Known for ActingBorn 1896-10-31Died 1977-09-01Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

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The Great Adventure

The Pearl Bailey Show

The Heart Is a Rebel

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

The Beulah Show

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Daniel Boone

Pinky

What's My Line?

The Dick Cavett Show

Blues Masters

Let My People Live

General Electric Theater

Rufus Jones for President

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Sound and the Fury

Route 66

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Cabin in the Sky

Tales of Manhattan

The Member of the Wedding

Playwrights '56

Cairo

The Steve Allen Show

Stage Door Canteen

On With the Show!

The Mike Douglas Show

The Voice That Thrilled the World

Carib Gold

The Hollywood Palace

Bubbling Over

Gift of Gab

Climax!

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

The Barbara McNair Show

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

Soundies Festival