1896-10-31 ( 128 years old ) in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Movies
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006-12-04
Blues Masters
1999-01-01
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
1989-01-01
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975-04-19
The Sound and the Fury
1959-03-27
The Heart is a Rebel
1958-01-01
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956-10-27
Carib Gold
1956-09-30
The Member of the Wedding
1952-12-25
Pinky
1949-09-28
Soundies Festival
1945-01-01
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
Stage Door Canteen
1943-06-24
Cabin in the Sky
1943-03-24
Cairo
1942-08-17
Tales of Manhattan
1942-08-05
Let My People Live
1939-03-10
Gift of Gab
1934-09-01
Bubbling Over
1934-04-19
Rufus Jones for President
1933-09-09
On With the Show!
1929-07-13
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