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Ethel Waters
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
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
