Past performers at the week-long festival include: Diana Krall, Arturo Sandoval, Jean Carne, Phil Woods, Aretha Franklin, Freda Payne, Cassandra Wilson, Ethel Ennis, David Sanborn, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ramsey Lewis, Patti Austin, and Ann Hampton Callaway

It was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

* Unless, 2002 ( winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, shortlisted in 2002 Man / Booker Prize and ScotiaBank / Giller Prize, and shortlisted in 2003 Orange Prize )

The silent film stars Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Mabel Van Buren, Ethel Wales and May Giraci.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

* Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, 1998 ( Visible Worlds )

* Short-listed for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 2007 ( What It Takes to Be Human )

She has published six books of poetry and eight novels and has won both the Canadian Authors Association Award for her poetry collection Land of the Peace in 1980 and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Housebroken in 1986.

His book, So It Won't Go Away, was shortlisted for the 2006 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Award, the novel won the City of Vancouver Book Award despite some critics charging that the writing was over-earnest.

Directed by Joshua Logan, the show starred Ethel Merman as Annie, Ray Middleton as Frank Butler, Art Bernett as Foster Wilson, Harry Bellaver as Chief Sitting Bull, Kenneth Bowers as Tommy Keeler, Marty May as Charlie Davenport and William O ' Neal as Buffalo Bill.

She has three times received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Intertidal Life ( 1984 ), Wild Blue Yonder ( 1990 ), and Coming Down from Wa ( 1995 ).

The original cast included Christie MacDonald as Princess Jeanne / Sylvia, Thomas Conkey as Prince Franz, Edwin Wilson as Lieutenant Karl, Frank Belcher as Petrus Von Trump, Tom McNaughton as Mikel Mikeloviz, Ethel Du Fre Houston as Dame Paula, and Hazel Kirk as Liane.

The novel was nominated for the Giller Prize and was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Her first full length novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was published by Press Gang in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Scotia BankGiller Prize in 1997, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Monkey Beach was short-listed for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, and received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Its guests included musicians going to Stax Records including Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Aretha Franklin, Ethel Waters, Otis Redding, The Staple Singers and Wilson Pickett.

Directed by Albert Lewis and staged by George Balanchine, the stage production starred Ethel Waters as Petunia Jackson, Dooley Wilson as " Little Joe " Jackson, Katherine Dunham as Georgia Brown, Rex Ingram as Lucifer Junior, and Todd Duncan as The Lawd's General.

Following Nancy Green are a long line of Aunt Jemimas, including: Anna Robinson ( 1923-1951 ), Edith Wilson ( 1948-1966 ), Ethel Ernestine Harper ( the 1950s )

* Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola ( 1986, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize )

* Ethel Wilson:

Memory Board ( 1987 ) and After the Fire ( 1989 ) were both nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

* A Coastal Range-1984 ( nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize )

It won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes in 2005 and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize-Canada and the Caribbean Region, as well.

Home Schooling won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes in 2007.

* 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.

* 1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

* May 21 – Gypsy: A Musical Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical, opens on Broadway and runs for 702 performances

** President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and were executed in 1953.

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

In one sketch on 1 March 1967, Feldman's character harassed a patient shop assistant ( played by Cleese ) for a series of fictitious books, achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.

For the hit Broadway show, " Hot Chocolates ", he and Razaf wrote "( What Did I Do to Be So ) Black and Blue " ( 1929 ), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong.

* 1927: Josephine Butler: her work and principles and their meaning for the twentieth century ( written with Ethel M. Turner ).

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

She also performed for black regiments as the only white member of an acting troupe formed by Hattie McDaniel, which included Lena Horne and Ethel Waters.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

Beatrix and her sisters Rosalind Birnie Philip and Ethel Whibley posed for many of Whistler's paintings and drawings ; with Ethel Whibley being the model for Mother of pearl and silver: The Andalusian ( 1888 – 1900 ).

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

She starred in the ABC television version, taking over for Ethel Waters after the first season.

Bette Davis also performed for black regiments as the only white member of an acting troupe formed by Hattie McDaniel, that also included Lena Horne and Ethel Waters.

In the end, Betty pulls her name out of consideration for Most Popular as she saw the situation having gone way too far ; and Veronica losing to Ethel Muggs, the person she scorned in the first part of the story.

It was at this time she decided that the name Ethel Zimmermann was too long for a theater marquee.

Ethel Merman with Tyrone Power in the trailer for Alexander's Ragtime Band ( film ) | Alexander's Ragtime Band