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.

Cast

Tales of Manhattan

Esther

Cairo

Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid

Pinky

Dicey Johnson

The Member of the Wedding

Berenice Sadie Brown

Cabin in the Sky

Petunia Jackson

Soundies Festival

Unknown

On With the Show!

Ethel

The Sound and the Fury

Dilsey

Bubbling Over

Ethel Peabody

Rufus Jones for President

Mother of Rufus

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1

Unknown

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Self (archive footage)

Blues Masters

Self (archive footage)

Let My People Live

Unknown

Stage Door Canteen

Ethel Waters

The Heart is a Rebel

Gladys

Gift of Gab

Herself

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

The Voice That Thrilled the World

Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)

Carib Gold

Mom

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Self (archive footage)

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

Sunday School Teacher