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 Ame...
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Ethel Waters's Movies
Pinky
28 Sept 1949
Cabin in the Sky
24 Mar 1943
That's Entertainment, Part II
16 May 1976
Tales of Manhattan
05 Aug 1942
The Member of the Wedding
25 Dec 1952
Stage Door Canteen
24 Jun 1943
The Sound and the Fury
27 Mar 1959
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
06 Aug 1975
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
03 Apr 2003
Cairo
17 Aug 1942
On With the Show!
13 Jul 1929
Bubbling Over
19 Apr 1934
The Voice That Thrilled the World
16 Oct 1943
Rufus Jones for President
09 Sept 1933
Gift of Gab
01 Sept 1934
Blues Masters
01 Jan 1999
Carib Gold
30 Sept 1956
Soundies Festival
01 Jan 1945
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
04 Dec 2006
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
01 Jan 1973
Ethel Waters's TV Shows
Daniel Boone
24 Sept 1964
What's My Line?
02 Feb 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
20 Jun 1948
The Dick Cavett Show
06 Jun 1968
Route 66
07 Oct 1960
Climax!
07 Oct 1954
The Mike Douglas Show
11 Dec 1961
General Electric Theater
01 Feb 1953
The Steve Allen Show
24 Jun 1956
The Hollywood Palace
04 Jan 1964
Playwrights '56
04 Oct 1955
The Beulah Show
03 Oct 1950
The Great Adventure
27 Sept 1963
The Barbara McNair Show
13 Sept 1969
The Pearl Bailey Show
23 Jan 1971