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Ethel Waters
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 Bro…
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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.
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2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Blues Masters
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
TV show Self
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1969
The Barbara McNair Show
TV show Self
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Rachael
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1964
The Hollywood Palace
TV show Self
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1963
The Great Adventure
TV show Rit
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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1960
Route 66
TV show
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1959
The Sound and the Fury
Movie Dilsey
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1958
The Heart Is a Rebel
Movie Gladys
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1956
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Movie Sunday School Teacher
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1956
Carib Gold
Movie Mom
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1956
The Steve Allen Show
TV show Self - Singer
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1955
Playwrights '56
TV show
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1954
Climax!
TV show Aunt Kate
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Mother
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1952
The Member of the Wedding
Movie Berenice Sadie Brown
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1950
The Beulah Show
TV show Beulah
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1949
Pinky
Movie Dicey Johnson
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1945
Soundies Festival
Movie
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1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
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1943
Stage Door Canteen
Movie Ethel Waters
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1943
Cabin in the Sky
Movie Petunia Jackson
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1942
Cairo
Movie Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
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1942
Tales of Manhattan
Movie Esther
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1939
Let My People Live
Movie
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1934
Gift of Gab
Movie Herself
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1934
Bubbling Over
Movie Ethel Peabody
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1933
Rufus Jones for President
Movie Mother of Rufus
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1929
On With the Show!
Movie Ethel
