Born on this day – Ethel Waters:

Ethel Waters

Singer

Actress

October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977

Songs:

A Hundred Years From Today, As Thousands Cheer: Heat Wave; At the New Jump Steady Ball; Baby, What Else Can I Do?; Black And Blue; Blue Skies; Cabin in the Sky; Come Up and See Me Sometime; Dinah; Down Home Blues; Georgia Blues; Heatwave; His Eye Is On The Sparrow; Honey in the Honeycomb; I Got Rhythm; I Just Couldn't Make It, Baby; Me; Paper Moon; Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; Puttin' On The Ritz; Shake That Thing; Some of These Days; Spread Yo' Stuff; St. Louis Blues; Stormy Weather; Suppertime; Takin' a Chance on Love; Taking a Chance on Love; They say; You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You; You're Lucky to Me.

Movies and television:

Amelia (2009); American Inventory (1953); American Masters (1997); Beulah (1950–1951); Biography (1995–2001); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Blues Masters (1999); Break the $250,000 Bank (1957); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bubbling Over (1934); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Cairo (1942); Carib Gold (1956); Change Your Luck (1933); Classified X (2007); Climax! (1955); Cold Case (2005–2006); Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2018); Daniel Boone (1970); Della (1969); Dinah! (1976); Double Vision (2015); Encounter (1954); Entertainment Tonight (1990); General Electric Guest House (1951); General Electric Theater (1955); Gift of Gab (1934); Great Performances (2003); Heart of Midnight (1988); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hold That Note (1957); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Home (1956); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Jazz (2001); Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (1972); Let My People Live (1939); Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948); Look Up and Live (1955); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990); On with the Show! (1929); One Night Stand (1959); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1950); Person to Person (1954); Pinky (1949); Playwrights '56 (1955); Project Twenty (1961); Ridley Road (2021); Route 66 (1961); Rufus Jones for President (1933); Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017); Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956); See It Loud: The History of Black Television (2023); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Sing Your Song (2011); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Something Special (1967); Songs for Sale (1951); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Television (1988); That's Black Entertainment (1990); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024); The Barbara McNair Show (1970); The Bob Braun Show (1968); The Borden Show (1947); The Color Purple (2023); The Dave Garroway Show (1953–1954); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1963); The Ethel Waters Show (1939); The Great Adventure (1963); The Heart Is a Rebel (1958); The Hollywood Palace (1969); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Linkletter Show (1962); The Member of the Wedding (1952); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1977); The Mike Wallace Interview (1959); The Milton Berle Show (1951); The New Steve Allen Show (1962); The Nightclub Years (2001); The Old Mill Pond (1936); The Pearl Bailey Show (1971); The Sound and the Fury (1959); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1959); The Tex and Jinx Show (1954–1957); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943); This Is Show Business (1950–1952); This Is Your Life (1971); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Vacation Playhouse (1967); What's My Line? (1951); Whirlybirds (1959); Your Play Time (1955).