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    Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway...
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  • The Ethel Waters Show was a one-hour American television variety special that ran in the earliest days of NBC, on June 14, 1939, and was hosted by actress...
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    (1967) Nobody Sees Me Cry (1967) Diahann Carroll (1974) A Tribute to Ethel Waters (1978) The Time of My Life (1997) 2011: Inducted into the Television...
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    daughter of jazz musician Junior Waters and his wife Betty. Her great-aunt, Ethel Waters, was one of the first black American vocalists to appear in mainstream...
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    Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant; vocalists Adelaide Hall, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Lillie Delk Christian, Aida Ward, Avon Long...
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  • light-skinned black woman who passes for white. It also stars Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan. Pinky was released in the United States...
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    the Sky features an all-black cast and stars Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Lena Horne. Waters and Rex Ingram reprise their roles from the...
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  • Stormy Weather (song) (category Ethel Waters songs)
    Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded...
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    His Eye Is on the Sparrow (category Ethel Waters songs)
    composer Charles H. Gabriel. It is most associated with actress-singer Ethel Waters who used the title for her autobiography. Tanya Blount & Lauryn Hill...
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    Uggams started in show business as a child in 1951, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on Beulah. That same year she appeared as a featured performer at the...
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  • American film noir drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and Brandon deWilde. The story, based on Carson McCullers'...
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  • Derek Waters (born 1979), American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director Dina Waters (born 1965), American actress Doris Ethel Waters, better...
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  • Florence Elsie Waters (19 August 1893–14 June 1990) and her sister Doris Ethel Waters (20 December 1899–18 August 1978) were English comic actresses and...
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  • It was also the first Broadway show to give an African-American star, Ethel Waters, equal billing with whites. Moss Hart said that he and Irving Berlin...
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  • Studios in the Bronx while Ethel Waters was simultaneously appearing on Broadway in The Member of the Wedding. Ethel Waters starred as Beulah for the first...
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  • Stable received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters, and Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester, respectively). Nominees...
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    starred in the television version of the show, replacing Ethel Waters after the first season. (Waters had apparently expressed concerns over stereotypes in...
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  • The cast included Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and introduced Brandon deWilde, a seven-year-old second-grader at the time. Waters, Harris, and deWilde...
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  • Vélez (1908–1944) Evelyn Venable (1913–1993) Vera-Ellen (1926–1981) Ethel Waters (1896–1977) Pearl White (1889–1938) Esther Williams (1921–2013) Lois...
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    of America (NAG), with Noble Sissle, W. C. Handy, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. The organization's mission included speaking out against stereotyping...
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    (1949) -- Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester Pinky (1949) -- Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters All About Eve (1950) -- Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter The...
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  • Taking a Chance on Love (category Ethel Waters songs)
    from the 1940 Broadway musical Cabin in the Sky. It was introduced by Ethel Waters playing the role of Petunia Jackson both on Broadway and later in the...
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  • Heat Wave (Irving Berlin song) (category Ethel Waters songs)
    introduced in the show by Ethel Waters. 1938: The song was featured in the film Alexander's Ragtime Band, where it was performed by Ethel Merman. 1946: It was...
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  • vernacular jazz dance performers include The Whitman Sisters, Florence Mills, Ethel Waters, Al Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton...
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  • Hannah Sylvester Eva Taylor Bessie Tucker Lavinia Turner Sippie Wallace Ethel Waters Georgia White Edith Wilson Lena Wilson Estelle Yancey Women in music...
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    composed by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. Starring Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, and Eleanor Powell, the Broadway musical centered on a married couple...
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    2019-07-11. "Ethel Waters Primetime Emmy Awards and Nominations". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved January 11, 2016. "Ethel Waters". Museum...
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  • of Portrait of Ethel Waters and, thanks in large part to the generosity of the Huntsville community, Lucioni's Portrait of Ethel Waters now has a new home...
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  • Dinah (song) (category Ethel Waters songs)
    "Dinah" is a popular song published in 1925 and introduced by Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club on Broadway. It was integrated into the show Kid Boots...
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  • such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico Marx and Ethel Waters. Falk was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent his boyhood and...
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