Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
October 31, 1896
Died
September 1, 1977 (80 years old)
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Sweet Mama Stringbean
Ethel Waters
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.
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Known For
Acting
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Daniel Boone
1964
Route 66
1960
The Sound and the Fury
1959
Climax!
1954
The Member of the Wedding
1952
What's My Line?
1950
Pinky
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Stage Door Canteen
1943
Cabin in the Sky
1943
Tales of Manhattan
1942