Ethel Waters
Acting · Born Oct 31, 1896 · Died Sep 1, 1977 (80) · 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.
Known for
Films
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
20037.0
Blues Masters
19996.5
That's Entertainment, Part II
19767.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
19756.3
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
19737.0
The Sound and the Fury
19596.8
The Heart Is a Rebel
19588.0
Carib Gold
19565.5
The Member of the Wedding
19526.3
Pinky
19497.1
Soundies Festival
1945
The Voice That Thrilled the World
19436.0
Stage Door Canteen
19436.3
Cabin in the Sky
19436.5
Cairo
19426.3
Tales of Manhattan
19426.5
Let My People Live
19397.0
Gift of Gab
19345.2
Bubbling Over
19345.0
Rufus Jones for President
19337.0
On With the Show!
19296.2
