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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant; vocalists Adelaide Hall, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Lillie Delk Christian, Aida Ward, Avon Long...

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...

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...

composer Charles H. Gabriel. It is most associated with actress-singer Ethel Waters who used the title for her autobiography. Tanya Blount & Lauryn Hill...

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...

Derek Waters (born 1979), American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director Dina Waters (born 1965), American actress Doris Ethel Waters, better...

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...

American film noir drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and Brandon deWilde. The story, based on Carson McCullers'...

Clarke (lyrics), then featured in four films that year, most notably with Ethel Waters in the movie On with the Show.[citation needed] It has appeared in 42...

starred in the television version of the show, replacing Ethel Waters after the first season. (Waters had apparently expressed concerns over stereotypes in...

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...

vernacular jazz dance performers include The Whitman Sisters, Florence Mills, Ethel Waters, Al Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton...

with Ethel Waters Xavier Cugat with Lina Romay Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee Kay Kyser Guy Lombardo Freddy Martin Count Basie with Ethel Waters Benny...

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...

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...

Vélez (1908–1944) Evelyn Venable (1913–1993) Vera-Ellen (1926–1981) Ethel Waters (1896–1977) Pearl White (1889–1938) Esther Williams (1921–2013) Lois...

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...

composed by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. Starring Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, and Eleanor Powell, the Broadway musical centered on a married couple...

Stable received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters, and Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester, respectively). Nominees...

The cast included Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and introduced Brandon deWilde, a seven-year-old second-grader at the time. Waters, Harris, and deWilde...

"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...

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)...

(1949) -- Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester Pinky (1949) -- Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters All About Eve (1950) -- Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter The...

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...

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...