Ethel Waters
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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)
Ethel Waters trivia
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)
Ethel Waters filmography
Pinky
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. T...
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Cabin in the Sky
In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps at the Paradise club; he's shot and brought home with a mortal wound. Petunia offers powerful prayers, and Joe gets a six-month rep...
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Cairo
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of raising her spirits. Much to her surprise ...
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