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Actors were not allowed to dance on the stage on the Sabbath and couldn't wear anything but street clothes while performing.
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
All her life my grandmother was puzzled by the four children she had brought into the world. She neither liked nor understood the way they lived.
All my life I've been prejudiced against ... (more Ethel Waters quotes)
Her first dramatic role on Broadway was in the play "Mamba's Daughter."
The songwriter Irving Berlin cast her in his 1933 musical revue "As Thousands Cheer" where she introduced the hit songs "Heat Wave", "Harlem On My Mind", and "Supper Time".
She died at age 80 in the Chatsworth, Ca. home of a young couple that was caring for her.
She headlined at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
One of the most popular jazz/... (more Ethel Waters trivia)
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