Ethel Waters Net Worth
Ethel Waters Net Worth is
$100,000
Ethel Waters Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an African-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 include "Dinah," "Stormy Weather," "Taking a Chance on Love," "Heat Wave," "Supper Time," "Am I Blue?" 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, after Hattie McDaniel, to be nominated for an Academy Award. She is also the first African American woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award, in 1962. Full Name | Ethel Waters |
Date Of Birth | October 31, 1896 |
Died | 1977-09-01 |
Place Of Birth | Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Profession | Actress, Soundtrack |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Ed Mallory, Clyde Edward Matthews, Merritt Purnsley, Stormy Weather, Am I Blue, Taking a Chance on Love |
Parents | John Waters, Louise Anderson, Stormy Weather, Am I Blue, Taking a Chance on Love |
Awards | Grammy Hall of Fame |
Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Stormy Weather, Am I Blue, Taking a Chance on Love |
Movies | Cabin in the Sky, Pinky, The Member of the Wedding, On with the Show!, Rufus Jones for President, The Heart Is a Rebel, Tales of Manhattan, Bubbling Over, The Sound and the Fury, Carib Gold |
TV Shows | Beulah |
Star Sign | Scorpio |
# | Quote |
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1 | I guess singing is the traditional outlet for the colored people. The very thing that is paramount in my mind I can find expression for in just humming a song. But, of course, there is solid prayer for other things in my mind. Oh, I can get angry and curse a little (of course, the Lord look the other way). I don't take the Lord's name in vain, don't get that idea. But I have a vocabulary without the Lord's name that could raise the roof. You understand what I'm saying, sugar? |
2 | I just let singing out the way it comes to me. Once the orchestra gets used to letting themselves go, everything works out fine. The song is really the main thing, the song and the way you sing it. |
# | Fact |
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1 | Waters made headlines in January 1957 when she appeared on the game show "Break the $250,000 Bank" and announced that she was broke and needed the money to pay off back taxes owed to the I.R.S. She won $10,000 by the end of her second week (her winning category was religious music) when the show was abruptly canceled. She accepted the chance to appear on the new show, "Hold That Note" but she wasn't the winner when she appeared on the first episode of the new series. |
2 | Universal Pictures announced in November 1968 that they would be making a movie version of Waters autobiography "His Eye Is On the Sparrow" from a screenplay by Peter S. Feibleman, with Julian Blaustein producing. It was planned to use an unknown to play Waters but the film was never made. |
3 | There is a park named in her honor in her hometown of Chester, Pennsylvania. Ethel Waters Park is located at Third & Dock Streets and a plaque reading "dedicated to the city of Chester for the enjoyment of its people" was placed there May 1, 1972 following "Ethel Waters Week," which ran from April 24th to April 30, 1972. April 30, 1972 was proclaimed "Ethel Waters Day" in Pennsylvania by then governor Milton Shapp. Waters was on hand for the ceremonies. |
4 | October 15, 1953 was designated "Ethel Waters Day" in New York City by Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri. Waters was honored in a City Hall ceremony by the Mayor and the Negro Actors Guild for her "limitless and tireless efforts" in advancing the country's democratic ideals at home and abroad. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, founders of the Guild, were on hand for the occasion. |
5 | Often appeared on the various radio & TV shows of New York City media couple "Tex & Jinx" (John Reagan 'Tex' McCrary & Eugenia 'Jinx' Lincoln Falkenberg). Waters appeared as a regular on the Tex & Jinx TV Show over WNBT in NYC starting January 29, 1954. |
6 | Won a Joseph Jefferson Award as Best Guest Artist in a Locally Produced Play in 1970 for her performance in "The Member of the Wedding" at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago. The award was presented to her by Cyd Charisse. |
7 | Waters has had three of her recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame: "Dinah" (Columbia Records, 1925) in 1998; "Stormy Weather" (Brunswick Records, 1933) in 2003; and "Am I Blue?" (Columbia Records, 1929) in 2007. Her "Stormy Weather" recording was also inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2004. |
8 | Waters was honored on a U.S. Postal Service stamp issued September 1, 1994 as part of the Legends of American Music series. Her stamp was issued at a ceremony at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, along with stamps honoring Nat 'King' Cole, Bing Crosby, Al Jolson and Ethel Merman. A west coast ceremony was held by the U.S. Postal Service at Compton Community College in Compton, CA the next day. The city of Compton declared September 2, 1994 'Nat King Cole/Ethel Waters Day' for the occasion. |
9 | Husband Edward Mallory was an orchestra leader whom Ethel performed with. |
10 | Never learned how to read music. |
11 | She got religion in the late 1950s and performed and toured with evangelist Billy Graham until her death in 1977. |
12 | She recorded her first two songs, "The New York Glide" and "At the New Jump Steady Ball," in 1921 on the Cardinal Record label. That same year, she was the first artist to record for Black Swan, W.C. Handy's record label. By the early 1930s, she had introduced fifty song hits. |
13 | Performed for the first time at the age of five in a children's church program; given the first chance to sing on an amateur night at a Philadelphia club on her 15th birthday and was hired on the spot and billed as "Sweet Mama Stringbean"; and made her vaudeville debut in 1917 at the Lincoln Theater in Baltimore, Maryland. |
14 | Ethel was born to a 12-year-old mother, Louise Anderson, who had been raped at knife point by a man named John Waters. Although she was raised by her maternal grandmother, Sally Anderson, she took her father's surname. |
15 | Her favorite hymn was "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." She used it for the title of her autobiography. |
16 | Married three times; had no children. |
17 | Was the second African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. The first was Hattie McDaniel, who won for her performance in Gone with the Wind (1939). |
18 | Sang with the Billy Graham Crusade in her later years, always to a warm reception, and recorded several albums of sacred music for Word Records. Became a born-again Christian at one of Graham's crusades in the late 1950s. |
19 | Singer Crystal Waters is her great-niece. |
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | 1972 | TV Series | Aunt Harriet |
Daniel Boone | 1970 | TV Series | Rachael |
Vacation Playhouse | 1967 | TV Series | Carrie |
The Great Adventure | 1963 | TV Series | Rit |
Route 66 | 1961 | TV Series | Jennie Henderson |
Whirlybirds | 1959 | TV Series | Sarah |
The Sound and the Fury | 1959 | Dilsey | |
The Heart Is a Rebel | 1958 | Gladys | |
Carib Gold | 1957 | Mom | |
Matinee Theatre | 1957 | TV Series | |
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower | 1956 | TV Movie | Sunday School Teacher |
Playwrights '56 | 1955 | TV Series | Dilsey |
General Electric Theater | 1955 | TV Series | Mother |
Climax! | 1955 | TV Series | Aunt Kate |
Your Play Time | 1955 | TV Series | Hannah |
Encounter | 1954 | TV Series | Katherine |
The Member of the Wedding | 1952 | Berenice Sadie Brown | |
The Jackie Gleason Show | 1952 | TV Series | Guest Jazz Vocalist |
Beulah | 1950-1951 | TV Series | Beulah |
Pinky | 1949 | Pinky's Granny | |
Stage Door Canteen | 1943 | Ethel Waters | |
Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Petunia Jackson | |
Cairo | 1942 | Cleona Jones | |
Tales of Manhattan | 1942 | Esther | |
Bubbling Over | 1934 | Short | Ethel Peabody |
Change Your Luck | 1933 | Short | Ethel |
Rufus Jones for President | 1933 | Short | Mother of Rufus Jones |
On with the Show! | 1929 | Ethel |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Amelia | 2009 | performer: "Moonglow" 1934 | |
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical | 2008 | Video documentary performer: "Am I Blue?", "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" - uncredited | |
Cold Case | 2005-2006 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
American Masters | 1997 | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | 1990 | performer: "Jeepers Creepers" | |
Heart of Midnight | 1988 | performer: "Baby, What Else Can I Do" | |
Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary performer: "Taking a Chance on Love" 1940 - uncredited | |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1976 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1972 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The David Frost Show | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1972 writer - 1 episode, 1972 | ||
Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 | 1972 | TV Movie performer: "Dinah", "Taking a Chance on Love" | |
The Pearl Bailey Show | 1971 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Barbara McNair Show | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1970 writer - 1 episode, 1970 | ||
Daniel Boone | 1970 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Hollywood Palace | 1969 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Hollywood and the Stars | 1963 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Route 66 | 1961 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1959 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Heart Is a Rebel | 1958 | performer: "The Crucifixion", "His Eye Is on the Sparrow", "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" | |
Carib Gold | 1957 | performer: "Carib Gold" | |
Matinee Theatre | 1957 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1956 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Person to Person | 1954 | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
The Member of the Wedding | 1952 | performer: "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" - uncredited | |
Texaco Star Theatre | 1951 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1950 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1949 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Let's Sing a Song from the Movies | 1948 | Short performer: "Am I Blue?" | |
The Voice That Thrilled the World | 1943 | Short performer: "Am I Blue" - uncredited | |
Stage Door Canteen | 1943 | performer: "Quick Sands" 1943 | |
Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | performer: "Li'l Black Sheep" 1943, "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" 1943, "Cabin in the Sky" 1940 uncredited, "Taking a Chance on Love" 1940 uncredited, "Honey in the Honeycomb" 1940 uncredited | |
Cairo | 1942 | The Kiss, The Sextet, 1835, 1912, Home, Sweet Home, 1823, performer: "Il bacio" , "Chi mi frena", "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee", "There's No Place Like Home", uncredited | |
The Old Mill Pond | 1936 | Short performer: "Jungle Rhythm" - uncredited | |
Gift of Gab | 1934 | performer: "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More" - uncredited | |
Bubbling Over | 1934 | Short performer: "Taking Your Time", "Darkies Never Dream" | |
Rufus Jones for President | 1933 | Short performer: "Am I Blue?", "Underneath the Harlem Moon", "Lullaby" - uncredited | |
On with the Show! | 1929 | performer: "Am I Blue?" 1929, "Birmingham Bertha" 1929 - uncredited |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Jazz | 2001 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Herself |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1965-1976 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1972 | TV Series | Herself |
The David Frost Show | 1972 | TV Series | Herself |
The Dick Cavett Show | 1972 | TV Series | Herself |
Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 | 1972 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Pearl Bailey Show | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
This Is Your Life | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
The Barbara McNair Show | 1970 | TV Series | Herself |
Della | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
The Hollywood Palace | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The 37th Annual Academy Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member |
The New Steve Allen Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
The Linkletter Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
Project XX | 1961 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1959 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
The Mike Wallace Interview | 1959 | TV Series | Herself |
Hold That Note | 1957 | TV Series | Herself - Contestant |
Break the $250,000 Bank | 1957 | TV Series | Herself - Contestant |
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1956 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
Home | 1956 | TV Series | Herself |
The Dave Garroway Show | 1953-1954 | TV Series | Herself |
Person to Person | 1954 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Singer |
American Inventory | 1953 | TV Series | Herself |
This Is Show Business | 1950-1952 | TV Series | Herself |
General Electric Guest House | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
What's My Line? | 1951 | TV Series | Herself - Mystery Guest |
Songs for Sale | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
Texaco Star Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
Showtime, U.S.A. | 1950 | TV Series | Herself |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1949-1950 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Singer |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1950 | TV Series | Herself |
The Borden Show | 1947 | TV Series | Herself |
Let My People Live | 1939 | Documentary short | |
Gift of Gab | 1934 | Herself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Bicentennial Nigger | 2006 | Short | |
Broadway: The American Musical | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | |
Great Performances | 2003 | TV Series | Herself |
The Nightclub Years | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
Biography | 1995-2001 | TV Series documentary | Herself / Actress 'Pinky' |
Blues Masters | 1999 | Video documentary | |
Classified X | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
American Masters | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Actress 'Pinky' (uncredited) |
Inside the Dream Factory | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
That's Black Entertainment | 1990 | Documentary | Herself |
Entertainment Tonight | 1990 | TV Series | Mother of Rufus |
The Ladies Sing the Blues | 1989 | Herself | |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1977 | TV Series | Herself - Actress / Herself |
That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary | Clip from 'Cabin in the Sky' |
Brother Can You Spare a Dime | 1975 | Documentary | Herself |
Black Shadows on the Silver Screen | 1975 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
Hollywood and the Stars | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1958-1963 | TV Series | Herself |
Let's Sing a Song from the Movies | 1948 | Short | |
The Voice That Thrilled the World | 1943 | Short | Herself (segment "On with the Show!") (uncredited) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1962 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Route 66 (1960) |
1950 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Pinky (1949) |