Ethel Waters
Acting
Born 1896-10-31 · Chester, 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.
Filmography
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Dec 4, 2006
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Apr 3, 2003
Blues Masters
Jan 1, 1999
That's Entertainment, Part II
May 16, 1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Aug 6, 1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Apr 19, 1975
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Jan 1, 1973
The Sound and the Fury
Mar 27, 1959
The Heart is a Rebel
Jan 1, 1958
Carib Gold
Sep 30, 1956
The Member of the Wedding
Dec 25, 1952
Pinky
Sep 28, 1949
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Oct 16, 1943
Stage Door Canteen
Jun 24, 1943
Cabin in the Sky
Mar 24, 1943
Cairo
Aug 17, 1942
Tales of Manhattan
Aug 5, 1942
Let My People Live
Mar 10, 1939
Gift of Gab
Sep 1, 1934
Bubbling Over
Apr 19, 1934
Rufus Jones for President
Sep 9, 1933
On With the Show!
Jul 13, 1929