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Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather (Paperback)
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Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather (Paperback)
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Ethel Waters overcame her disadvantaged childhood to become the
most famous African American actress, singer, and entertainer of
her time. Her critically acclaimed move to Broadway in the mid
1920s-after having first triumphed in Black vaudeville during the
Harlem Renaissance-brought the startlingly innovative and subtle
character of Black Theatre into the mainstream. Ethel transformed
such songs as "Dinah," "Am I Blue?," "Stormy Weather," and Irving
Berlin's "Heat Wave" into classics and inspired the next generation
of Black female vocalists. She gave sophistication and class to the
blues and American popular song, and she influenced countless
singers including Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra. Tough,
uncompromising, courageous, and ambitious, Ethel Waters became one
of the first African American women to be given equal billing with
white stars on the Broadway stage. In 1943, the film version of her
Broadway success, Cabin in the Sky, established her as Hollywood's
first Black-leading lady. In such plays as Mamba's Daughters and
films including The Member of the Wedding, she shattered the myth
that Black women could perform only as singers. For her work in
Pinky, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actress, the second African American to be so honored. Although she
was arguably the most influential female blues and jazz singer of
the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a major Black figure in 20th
century theatre, cinema, radio, and television, she is now the
least remembered. In Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather, Stephen Bourne
documents the career of this monumental figure in American popular
culture, offering new insights into the work of this forgotten
legend. Supplemented by fourteen photographs, this biography leaves
little doubt as to why-for decades-no other Black star was held in
such high regard.
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