Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

Total Credits at Criticker: 12 (Actor)

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    The Member of the Wedding
    A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls. She spends most of her time in the kitchen talking to her black maid, Bernice, and the younger next door boy, John Henry. Her brother Jarvis is about to marry Janice, and Frankie imagines that she will leave town with them. However she eventually begins to grow up into a young woman. (imdb)
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    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. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage. (imdb)
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    Cabin in the Sky
    A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife. (imdb)
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    The Sound and the Fury
    Follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers". Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again. (imdb)
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    Bubbling Over
    Bubbling Over (1934) - Short Film
    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... (imdb comments)
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    Gift of Gab
    Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station. (imdb)
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    Cairo
    Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes. (imdb)
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    Rufus Jones for President
    Rufus Jones, a black child, is elected president of the USA in this short musical comedy. Features song and dance numbers by a seven year old 'Sammy Davis Jr.' (imdb)
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    Beulah
    Beulah (1950) - TV Series
    A comedy series of a family with the central role pointed to their Negro domestic who pulls the weekly family situations together with more common sense than all of the other family members.
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    Carib Gold
    The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
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    The Heart Is a Rebel
    Hal and Joan Foster hire Gladys, a nurse caregiver, to look after their son who has a life threatening heart problem. Joan is invited to hear Gladys sing with her church choir at a Billy Graham Crusade inside Madison Square Garden. Conflict arises as Hal is confused about Joan's decision for Christ. Ethel Waters sings His Eye Is On The Sparrow and the spiritual Motherless Child.
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    Let\
    In this entry from the "Memories from Melody Lane" series, clips from four movie musicals are shown, each featuring a single song. After each song, narrator Art Gilmore invites the audience to sing along with the Melody Makers, as cards with the song's lyrics are displayed on the screen. For the complete list of songs and performers, check the Soundtrack listing.
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