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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Diahann Carroll (redirect from A Tribute to Ethel Waters)
(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sabby Lewis, Slam Stewart, Mary Lou Williams, Rubberlegs Williams, Ethel Waters, and classical artists Georges Enesco, Béla Bartók, and Andor Foldes...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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it as the "Backslide," in the film Cabin in the Sky (1943), starring Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Lena Horne. Bill Bailey was born Willie...
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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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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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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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tune. He recorded the song several times in 1928, first with vocalist Ethel Waters, then with Irene Mims, aka Hazel Smith (with King Oliver playing trumpet)...
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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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Houston as Harold's fiancée Henry Fink as Father Otto Hoffman as Bert Ethel Waters as herself Harmony Four Quartette as themselves Four Covans as themselves...
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