Ethel Waters
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.
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Filmography
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Blues Masters
That's Entertainment, Part II
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
The Sound and the Fury
The Heart is a Rebel
No Image
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Carib Gold
The Member of the Wedding
Pinky
No Image
Soundies Festival
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Stage Door Canteen
Cabin in the Sky
Cairo
Tales of Manhattan
Let My People Live
Gift of Gab
Bubbling Over
Rufus Jones for President
On With the Show!