Cast
Ethel Waters
Acting
Cast
Ethel Waters
Known for
Acting
Born
1896-10-31
From
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
1977-09-01
Also known as Sweet Mama Stringbean
Biography
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.
★7.1
MOVIE1949
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
★5.0
MOVIE1934
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
★6.3
MOVIE1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1952
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
★6.3
MOVIE1943
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
★6.8
MOVIE1959
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
★6.2
MOVIE1929
On With the Show!
as Ethel
★5.5
MOVIE1956
Carib Gold
as Mom
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Let My People Live
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Heart Is a Rebel
as Gladys
★6.0
MOVIE1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
MOVIE1956
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Gift of Gab
as Herself
MOVIE1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1945
Soundies Festival
★7.0
MOVIE1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
MOVIE2006