Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

Рождение : 1896-10-31, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Смерть : 1977-09-01

История

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Профиль

Ethel Waters

Фильмы

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Herself (archive material)
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and individually in sessions that lasted three days. The result was originally televised as part of the CBC "Festival" series, and now the session video tapes have been found, restored and re-edited. The great Muddy Waters and his band perform "You Can't Lose What You Never Had" and "Got My Mojo Workin'," the latter with James Cotton on harmonica. Willie Dixon goes solo on "Bassology" and (helped by a little '90s technology) performs "Crazy for My Baby" with host Colin James. Plus rare appearances by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Mable Hillery singing "How Long This Train Been Gone," and delta blues piano player Sunnyland Slim, introducing a whole new generation to this inspiring, soulful music.
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
Self (archive footage)
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues.
Вот это развлечение! Часть 2
(archive footage)
Золотые моменты из фильмотеки MGM, что включает как комедии и драмы, так и классические музыкальные номера.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Black Shadows on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
The Heart is a Rebel
Gladys
While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s acceptance of Christ. THE HEART IS A REBEL features the beloved Ethel Waters, and is set against Billy Graham’s historic 1957 New York City Crusade, with color scenes of the Crusade at Madison Square Garden.
Carib Gold
Mom
The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
На свадьбе
Berenice Sadie Brown
12-летняя Фрэнки Аддамс взволнована известием о приезде своего старшего брата Джарвиса и его предстоящей свадьбе. Она уверена, что молодожены заберут ее с собой из этого городка, где жизнь для Фрэнки стала невыносимой. Ее угнетает медленное взросление при том, что она считает себя уже достаточно самостоятельной. Чтобы доказать это, Фрэнки совершает поход в местный бар, но этот поступок не помогает ей самоутвердиться. И свадьба брата приносит одни разочарования. Но так и должно было быть — ведь все лучшее ждет Фрэнки впереди.
Пинки
Dicey Johnson
Пинки, молодая афроамериканская медсестра со светлым цветом кожи, возвращается в родной дом. Она признается бабушке, что за время учебы в школе медсестер все принимали ее за белую. Более того, она влюбилась в молодого белого врача, который ничего не знает о ее происхождении. Пинки намерена вернуться к нему, но бабушка упрашивает ее остаться и присмотреть за больной женщиной, которая в итоге оставляет Пинки наследство. Тут-то и объявляются родственники скончавшейся женщины, которые винят Пинки в том, что она силой получила это наследство.
Soundies Festival
From the great era of musical shorts come three gems that feature legendary African-American performers including Ethel Waters, Eddy Green and the incomparable Dusty Fletcher. The three featured shorts are: Mr. Atom's Bomb, Bubbling Over and Open the Door Richard. These musical classics must be seen!
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Хижина на небесах
Petunia Jackson
Заядлый игрок в кости и любитель женщин Литл Джо решает начать новую жизнь. Его жена Питунья давно молит Бога о том, чтобы он расстался с пагубными страстями, раскаялся и нашел работу. И такой день настал, Джо пришел в церковь на исповедь, но когда дошла его очередь причаститься, он сбежал со своими дружками в игорный клуб отыграться напоследок от долгов. В клубе его заподозрили в жульничестве и ранили выстрелом из револьвера. В предсмертном бредуДжо является Люцифер-младший со своей свитой, с целью забрать его в Ад, но Питуньяне зря просила и молила Бога за жизнь мужа и Ангелы также пришли к его постели. Междусилами добра и зла произошла разборка за душу азартного игрока, точку в которойпоставило решение Господа, дать Джо еще шесть месяцев на земле на исправление, но с одним условием - он не будет помнить эту встречу. Если за этот срок он обелит свою душу, то попадет в Рай, если же нет - тогда навсегда останется в лапах Люцифера.
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Herself (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
Сказки Манхэттена
Esther
Фильм состоит из шести новелл о черном фраке, якобы несущем проклятье.
Let My People Live
Aimed at African Americans and shot at Tuskegee University, this film instructs viewers in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by focusing on a pair of sympathetic siblings, George and Mary, whose lives are altered by the disease. Starring Rex Ingram as Dr. Gordon, the film suggests that organized religion is an important defensive location in this particular community, and warns of the dangers of the previous generation’s superstitions and its fear of medicine. The Health Department prominently featured the film at the 1939 World’s Fair. Directed by Edgar Ulmer.
Gift of Gab
Herself
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast. She's also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives. Four more come by and sing as a quartet. After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out...
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
A fantasy satire on politics in which a little boy dreams that he becomes President of the U.S. and his 'mammy' is Vice President. The film spotlights two now legendary performers much earlier in their careers: Ethel Waters and Sammy Davis Jr. In his first screen appearance, around the age of seven, pint-sized Davis sings, dances and clowns. Nicknamed 'the beanpole' slim and slinky Waters looks far different from the heavier figure she displayed in Pinky (1949) and Member of the Wedding (1953). Statuesque in a long glamorous white gown, she sings her big hit "Am I Blue." Davis, in turn sings "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You." (Separate Cinema)
Люби меня сегодня
Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)
Портной Морис, надеясь получить деньги за выполненный заказ с заказчика - виконта Жилберта де Варезе, отправляется в замок его дяди, надеясь найти там должника. Виконт обещает оплатить долг в течение нескольких дней и по воле случая представляет Мориса как «барона». В замке Морис знакомится с Жанеттой, красивой, но одинокой принцессой, и влюбляется в нее. Девушка отвечает взаимностью, для влюбленных наступают чудесные мгновения, но эта радость длится до той секунды, пока не обнаружится, что Морис всего лишь портной...
On With the Show!
Ethel
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?