Blues singers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Gladys Bentley sang about affairs with women to visitors such as Tallulah Bankhead, Beatrice Lillie, and the soon-to-be-named Joan Crawford.

* 1896 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress ( d. 1977 )

* October 31 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress ( d. 1977 )

* Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters in 1922

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.

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.

Basie and band, with vocalist Ethel Waters, from the film Stage Door Canteen ( 1943 )

Marlin Hurt's Beulah was also spun off, leading to both a radio and television show that would eventually star Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters.

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

Many were movie folk — Actresses Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, etc.

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.

For his screen adaptation of the play The Member of the Wedding ( 1952 ), Zinnemann chose the 26-year-old Julie Harris as the film's 12-year-old protagonist, although she had created the role on Broadway just as the two other leading actors, Ethel Waters and Brandon deWilde, had.

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 Waters ( 1984 )

Others associated with Graham's ministries are also inductees: George Beverly Shea ( soloist of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Team ); Cliff Barrows ( inducted 1988-music director and choir master for all Billy Graham Evangelistic Campaigns ); Ralph Carmichael ( producer for the music in Billy Graham films such as " Mr. Texas ", " For Pete's Sake ", " The Restless Ones ", and " His Lane "); and singers Ethel Waters and Stuart Hamblen.

", recorded by Ethel Waters and by Nat Shilkret Orchestra

starring Arthur Lake, Betty Compson and Joe E. Brown, and featuring Ethel Waters

*" Dinah " by Ethel Waters

** Ethel Waters

Introduced by Ethel Waters in the musical As Thousands Cheer.

Introduced by Ethel Waters in the revue As Thousands Cheer.

He reformed bands of his own several times in the 1940s, toured with Ethel Waters again in 1948 – 1949.

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* Ethel Waters, actress and singer

The couple had at first exchanged letters, which Beatty signed ' Jack ', as Ethel was still a married woman and discretion was advised.

After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Ethel Morgan with whom he raised four more children.

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.

Miss Ethel Peele was the first female graduate in 1908, while Mr. C. Abram Roberson was the first male graduate.

Irene Ellion Benson wrote one of the first books to incorporate Camp Fire called How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl, published in 1912.

Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New South Wales the eldest child of Phillip Wright and his first wife Ethel, but spent most of her formative years in Brisbane and Sydney.

After success in Liverpool and London, she attracted attention on Broadway and appeared first in Rasputin and the Empress in 1932, with Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore.

** Married Doris Rankin ( first wife ), and had two daughters Mary Barrymore ( died at infancy ) and Ethel Barrymore II ( died at infancy ).

Krupa married Ethel Maguire twice: the first marriage lasted from 1934 – 1942 ; the second one dates from 1946 to her death in 1955.

Among many glowing notices for this role, critic Lloyd Rose of the Washington Post commented: " banishes all thoughts of Ethel Merman about two bars into her first number, ' Doin ' What Comes Natur ' lly.

At first, Fred's main foil on the show is his sister-in-law and Lamont's aunt, Ethel ( Beah Richards ).

" Esther first appeared in early 1973, replacing her sister Ethel ( Beah Richards ), the first principal in-law character.

Having left higher education, Spare became employed as a bookplate designer and illustrator, with his first book commission being for Ethel Rolt Wheeler's Behind the Veil, published by the company David Nutt in 1906.

Actress Bea Benaderet, a friend of Lucille Ball, was the first choice to play the character of Ethel Mertz.

Although its first rumblings came in 1947 with the trial and conviction of the " Hollywood Ten ", the so-called Red Scare was truly gathering steam in the year 1950 with the espionage-related arrests of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the trial of Alger Hiss.

Other Westerners who wrote about Sri Ramana include Arthur Osborne ( the first editor of the ashram journal, The Mountain Path ), Major Chadwick ( who ran the Veda Patasala during Ramana's time ), Ethel Merston, and S. S. Cohen.

Later divorced from his first wife, Mars and Ethel Veronica Healy ( 1884 – 1945 ) were married in 1910.

In 2005, he was the first recipient of Dickinson College's prestigious Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Program Award, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Lawford's family was connected to the British aristocracy through his uncle Ernest Lawford's wife ( a daughter of the 14th Earl of Eglinton ) as well as his aunt Ethel Turner Lawford ( who married a son of the first Baron Avebury ).

After leaving Radio City Music Hall the first play Minnelli directed was a musical revue for the Shuberts titled At Home Abroad which opened in October 1935 and starred Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, and Eleanor Powell.

Fulton was first married to actress Ethel Scott, with whom he appeared on The Rikki Fulton Show in 1960 and 1961.