Ethel Waters Movies

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Crain

Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Waters

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ethel Waters

From the great era of musical shorts come three gems that feature legendary African-American performers including Ethel Waters, Eddy Green and the...

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Cast: Ethel Waters

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Arthur Lake

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yul Brynner

In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ethel Waters

A fantasy satire on politics in which a little boy dreams that he becomes President of the U.S. and his 'mammy' is Vice President. The film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ethel Waters

Genre: Music

Cast: Billie Holiday

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vincente Minnelli

In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and...

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Cast: Muddy Waters

Aimed at African Americans and shot at Tuskegee University, this film instructs viewers in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by focusing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Howard

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Terry

While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Waters

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Genre: Music

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this...

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Cast: Bessie Smith

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

Genre: History

Cast: Art Gilmore

The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Waters

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ossie Davis

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

Genre: Music

Cast: Edie Adams

Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hans Conried