Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names
Ethel Howard
Sweet Mama Stringbean
Occupations
Actress
singer
Years active
1917–1977
Spouse(s)
Merritt Purnsley
(m. 1910; div. 1913)
[2]
Clyde E. Matthews
(m. 1929; div. 1933)
[1]
Edward Mallory
(m. 1938; div. 1945)
[3]
Relatives
Crystal Waters[4] (great-niece)
Musical career
Genres
Jazz
Gospel
Blues
Instrument(s)
Vocals
Labels
Cardinal
Black Swan
Columbia
Brunswick
Decca
Liberty Music Shop
Word
Musical artist
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 stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first African American to star on her own television show, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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^Manning, Frankie; Millman, Cynthia R. (2018). Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1592135639. Retrieved July 10, 2018 – via Google Books.
^"The Story of Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)"". Thump.vice.com. April 8, 2016. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
EthelWaters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway...
The EthelWaters 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 EthelWaters (1978) The Time of My Life (1997) 2011: Inducted into the Television...
daughter of jazz musician Junior Waters and his wife Betty. Her great-aunt, EthelWaters, was one of the first black American vocalists to appear in mainstream...
composer Charles H. Gabriel. It is most associated with actress-singer EthelWaters who used the title for her autobiography. Tanya Blount & Lauryn Hill...
starred in the television version of the show, replacing EthelWaters after the first season. (Waters had apparently expressed concerns over stereotypes in...
It was also the first Broadway show to give an African-American star, EthelWaters, equal billing with whites. Moss Hart said that he and Irving Berlin...
composed by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. Starring Beatrice Lillie, EthelWaters, and Eleanor Powell, the Broadway musical centered on a married couple...
Florence Elsie Waters (19 August 1893–14 June 1990) and her sister Doris EthelWaters (20 December 1899–18 August 1978) were English comic actresses and...
The cast included EthelWaters, Julie Harris, and introduced Brandon deWilde, a seven-year-old second-grader at the time. Waters, Harris, and deWilde...
Uggams started in show business as a child in 1951, playing the niece of EthelWaters on Beulah. That same year she appeared as a featured performer at the...
from the 1940 Broadway musical Cabin in the Sky. It was introduced by EthelWaters playing the role of Petunia Jackson both on Broadway and later in the...
vernacular jazz dance performers include The Whitman Sisters, Florence Mills, EthelWaters, Al Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton...
James P. Johnson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, EthelWaters, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills and bandleaders Duke Ellington, Louis...
of Portrait of EthelWaters and, thanks in large part to the generosity of the Huntsville community, Lucioni's Portrait of EthelWaters now has a new home...
such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico Marx and EthelWaters. Falk was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent his boyhood and...
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