Ethel Waters
Acting Born: 1896-10-31 Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Pinky
Cairo
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
The Sound and the Fury
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
The Member of the Wedding
Tales of Manhattan
The Heart is a Rebel
On With the Show!
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
That's Entertainment, Part II
Bubbling Over
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Gift of Gab
Stage Door Canteen
Let My People Live
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Rufus Jones for President
Cabin in the Sky
