Highest rated movie: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Lowest rated movie: The Sound and the Fury (1959)
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Looking for reviews of Ethel Waters movies? Cinafilm has a total of 157 reviews across 10 movies.
Movies starring Ethel Waters have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There - released in 2003 - is Ethel Waters's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 31 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Ethel Waters is The Sound and the Fury - released in 1959 - with a score of 50% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Ethel Waters has acted in films with Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Ethel Merman and Harpo Marx.
Ethel Waters has worked with these film directors: Gene Kelly, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan and Julien Duvivier.
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