Acting
Ethel Waters
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Born
31 October 1896
Died
1 September 1977 (aged 80)
Birthplace
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as Sweet Mama Stringbean
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
Filmography
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
The Heart Is a Rebel
as Gladys
Carib Gold
as Mom
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
Cairo
as Cleona Jones
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
Gift of Gab
as Herself
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
On With the Show!
as Ethel