Their oldest daughter, Ethel Blackman (b.1890), was a victim in America's worst theater disaster at the Iroquois Theater. Ten-year-old Gladys (1893-1978) and six-year-old Godfrey / Jeffrey / Jeoffery / Geoffrey Blackman (1897-1965), escaped, …

Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900 [5] [1] [6]) to African-American mother Louise Anderson (1881–1962).Her birth was the result of the rape of teenaged Louise Anderson [1] by 17-year-old John Wesley (a.k.a. Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), [1] a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class ...

Their oldest daughter, Ethel Blackman (b.1890), was a victim in America's worst theater disaster at the Iroquois Theater. Ten-year-old Gladys (1893–1978) and six-year-old Geoffrey (sometimes spelled Godfrey, Jeffrey, Jeoffery or Geoffrey) Blackman (1897–1965), escaped, along with Gertrude's sister, Florence Smeal (1871–1943).

Waters, midway in what would be a long, turbulent, and illustrious career, had become the first African American to star in her own program on television. Ethel Waters would return to television eleven years later as the star of Beulah.

2025年2月1日 · In 1939, Ethel Waters — a blues singer and actress — became the first Black person to host a show on television. “The Ethel Waters Show,” as described by the author Donald Bogle in his book...

Ethel Waters (1896–1977) was a blues singer and actress who was the first African American to star in her own television show and to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. After singing in a local nightclub, Waters was asked to join the Braxton and Nugent vaudeville troupe that performed regionally around Baltimore, Maryland.

Ethel Black may refer to: Ethel McMillan (1904–1987), New Zealand politician; Ethel Black Kealing (1877–1960), American writer; Ethel Cuff Black (1890–1977), American educator

Waters, who spent most of the 1920s living in Harlem with her romantic partner, dancer Ethel Williams, eventually became one of the highest paid Broadway actresses, regardless of race. She often appeared at the well-known Cotton Club, where she was the first to sing “Stormy Weather” as part of The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 .

The Ethel Waters Show was a one-hour American television variety special that ran in the earliest days of NBC Television, on June 14, 1939, and was hosted by actress and singer Ethel Waters. [1] Waters was the first black performer, male or female, to have her own TV show and may very well have been the first black person to appear on television.

2024年12月11日 · The archives of pioneering American Black singer Ethel Waters, a stage, movie and TV star, have been acquired by the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.