People
Ethel Waters
- Name: Ethel Waters
- Birthday: 1896-10-31
- Also known as: Sweet Mama Stringbean
- Place of birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Popularity: 3.489
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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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 | 2006-12-04 |
| Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self (archive footage) | 2003-04-03 |
| Blues Masters as Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-01 |
| Wild Women Don't Have the Blues as Self (archive footage) | 1989-01-01 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage) | 1975-04-19 |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage) | 1973-01-01 |
| The Sound and the Fury as Dilsey | 1959-03-27 |
| The Heart is a Rebel as Gladys | 1958-01-01 |
| Carib Gold as Mom | 1957-09-30 |
| Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower as Sunday School Teacher | 1956-10-27 |
| The Member of the Wedding as Berenice Sadie Brown | 1952-12-25 |
| Pinky as Dicey Johnson | 1949-09-28 |
| Soundies Festival | 1945-01-01 |
| The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage) | 1943-10-16 |
| Stage Door Canteen as Ethel Waters | 1943-06-24 |
| Cabin in the Sky as Petunia Jackson | 1943-03-24 |
| Cairo as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid | 1942-08-17 |
| Tales of Manhattan as Esther | 1942-08-05 |
| Let My People Live | 1939-03-10 |
| Gift of Gab as Herself | 1934-09-01 |
| Bubbling Over as Ethel Peabody | 1934-04-19 |
| Rufus Jones for President as Mother of Rufus | 1933-09-09 |
| On With the Show! as Ethel | 1929-07-13 |
