Podcasts about Ethel Waters

EPISODE 76 - “MEMORABLE OSCAR SPEECHES OF THE GOLDEN ERA OF HOLLYWOOD” - 2/24/2025 Winning an Oscar is a dream for most people who work in Hollywood. But you can't just win the Oscar, you have to have a good speech once your name is called and you head to the podium. There have been some great ones — OLIVIA COLEMAN's funny and cheeky speech hit the right tone and who can forget JACK PALANCE's one-arm push-ups or CUBA GOODING's exuberance? There have also been some bad ones — don't we all still cringe a little at SALLY FIELDS' “You like me” speech? As we prepare to celebrate the 97th annual Academy Award ceremony, Steve and Nan look back on some of their favorite Oscar speeches and why they resonate. So put on your tux, don the gown and jewels, pop the champagne, and join us for a fun talk about … well, people talking.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: “Five Times The Oscars Made History,” January 20, 2017, www.nyfa.edu; “Hollywood History: How World War II Forced the Academy to Rethink the 1942 Oscars,” April 16, 2021, Entertainment Weekly; “Charlie Chaplin vs. America Explores the Accusations that Sent a Star Into Exile,” October 24, 2023, byTerry Gross, www.npr.com; “The Most Memorable Oscar Speeches in Oscar History,” March 6, 2024, by Shannon Carlin, www.time.com;   Wikipedia.com; TCM.com; IMDBPro.com; www.Oscars.org; Movies Mentioned:  Stella Dallas (1938), starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, & Alan Hale; Gone With The Wind (1939), starring Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Thomas Mitchell, & Barbara O'Neil; How Green Was My Valley (1941), starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, & Donald Crisp; Sergeant York (1941), starring Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, & Walter Brennan;  The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), staring Jean Arthur Robert Cummings, & Charle Coburn; Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, & Evelyn Keyes; Ball of Fire (1942), starring Barbara Stanwyck & Cary Cooper; Double Indemnity (1944), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray & Edward G Robinson; Key Largo (1948); starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson, Claire Trevor, & Lionel Barrymore; All The King's Men (1948), starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, & Mercedes McCambridge; Pinky (1949), starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters, Ethel Barrymore, Nina Mae McKinney, & Wiliam Lundigan; Marty (1955); starring Ernest Borgnine. Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, & Esther Minciotti; The King and I (1956), starring Yul Brenner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, & Rex Thompson; Elmer Gantry (1960), starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, and Patti Page; West Side Story (1961), Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chikiris, & Russ Tamblyn; Lillies of the Field (1963), starring Sidney Poitier;  In the Heat of the Night (1967)l starring Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, & Lee Grant; The Producers (1967), starring Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder; Rosemary's Baby (1968), starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, & Charles Grodin; Faces (1968), starring Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, & John Farley;  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), staring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Cecily Tyson, Stacey Keach, & Percy Rodrigues; The Last Picture Show (1971), starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, & Eileen Brennan; Murder on the Orient Express (1974), starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, & Jacqueline Bisset; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we continue celebrating Black History Month, actor/playwright/director/producer Wren T. Brown shares the incredible 100-year artistic journey of his family in his new book, A Family Business. From his great-grandfather's belief in music as a universal language to his grandfather's groundbreaking role as the first Black staff musician in Hollywood at Columbia Pictures in 1946, the Brown family's impact on entertainment runs deep. Wren's lineage includes jazz legends, Cotton Club dancers, and Hollywood pioneers, with connections to icons like Nat King Cole, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway. His father, a former child actor and jazz trumpeter, carried on the family tradition, making Wren a fourth-generation artist. His book, A Family Business, is now available in hardcover with rare photos and untold stories from a century of Black excellence in entertainment. This is one you won't want to miss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this month's episode, Brandon is joined by comedian Mia Jackson (Hulu) to discuss the life and career of Ethel Waters, the first Black woman to have her own television show. DBH Links:- https://www.instagram.com/officialdrunkblackhistory- https://www.drunkblackhistory.com/ - https://www.youtube.com/@drunkblackhistory- https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/16706941-dbh-logoGuest:Mia Jackson (@miacomedy)Hosts:Brandon Collins"Drunk Black History" is a production of Casa de Collins LLC. 

Josephine Baker was only 20 years old when she recorded the song “Dinah” at her first studio session 98 years ago this fall. That was just a year after the provocative dancer/singer arrived in Paris, immediately setting the town on fire with her risqué shows at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.And a West Virginian was right there to help her light those blazes.Ada “ Bricktop” Smith, a young Alderson, WV, native, was in Paris several years ahead of Baker, entertaining at composer Cole Porter's famous parties, often teaching his guests the latest dance crazes, such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom. Josephine Baker always acknowledged she was one Ada Smith's protégés in those heady early days of The Jazz Age.“I didn't get my first break on Broadway,” Baker told London's Guardian a half century later. No, she was just a nameless hoofer in the chorus line in those New York shows, she said, but “I became famous first in France in the Twenties.”“Oh yes,” she added, “Bricktop was there. Me and her were the only two, and we had a marvelous time. Of course, everyone who was anyone knew Bricky. And they got to know Miss Baker as well."Ada Smith became one of 1920s' best known American singers/dancers, owning the famed “Chez Bricktop” in Paris from 1924 to 1961. She even got a shout-out in Woody Allen's hit film, Midnight in Paris, in 2011 when the character of Zelda Fitzgerald proposes an evening's escapade:In the next scene, Cole Porter, the Fitzgeralds and their fabulous friends pile into a period open car and tear down Parisian streetd into the night.Ending up at Chez Bricktop, they watch Josephine Baker dance (and the Fitzgeralds drink…)Back to the Song“Dinah,” considered an anthem of the Roarin' Twenties, was not quite two years old when Josephine Baker recorded it that autumn day in 1926 in Paris.It was back in The States that she learned the hot number when she sang it at New York's Plantation Club on Broadway as the understudy to Ethel Waters.Obviously, the song was still much on Baker's mind when she strolled into the Odeon studio for her first recording session. The band recruited to accompany her on the date is thought to be members of a group called “Olivier's Jazz Boys.”“Dinah” by then had been introduced to the world by Waters within a year of its composition in 1925. After it was recorded by Waters for Columbia in 1926, the song went on to be waxxed by everyone from Fletcher Henderson and Cab Calloway to Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers and the Boswell Sisters to Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk and Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.And, as noted in an earlier Flood Watch article, the tune was famously among the favorites of trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who perform it in most of his numerous live shows and his radio appearances for decades after initially recording it in 1930.Our Take on the TuneWhenever the guys haven't seen each other for a couple of weeks, there's always a special joy when they all get back together again. That was certainly the case at last week's rehearsal. Add to that the fact that Floodster Emeritus Paul Martin dropped by to sit in. That always cranks up the energy level in the room. And you can just hear in this first tune of the evening. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Are you a fan of classic film and television? Well, Donna and Dr Adam have you covered when they are joined by two very special guests: Scott Morrow and Shannon Allen! As a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Scott “Scotty” Morrow played Hope Lange's brother in the film “Peyton Place” and was seen in classic shows “The Donna Reed Show”, “Wagon Train”, “Lassie”, and “My Three Sons”. Shannon Allen is a podcaster and writer with her popular podcast “Vanguard of Hollywood”, where she gets up close and personal with the films and stars of the Golden Age. In conversation, Scott shares what it was like to share the screen and studio with legends Lana Turner, George Montgomery, Richard Chamberlain, Ethel Waters…and his friend Marilyn Monroe! While Shannon, as an expert on all things Hollywood, shares stories from that classic time. Plus, Scott lets us into his current career as a photographer and Shannon shares her secrets for cooking, Hollywood style. To learn more about Scott and Shannon, you can purchase the bestselling book “Made in Hollywood: The Scott Morrow Story” and visit Shannon's website VanguardofHollywood.com

Support Breaking Walls at https://www.patreon.com/thewallbreakers Jubilee first took to the air on October 9th, 1942 transcribed by the Special Services Division of the War Department, then by the Armed Forces Radio Service. It featured Jazz and Swing bands and filled an important gap in the musical history of radio, gearing itself towards African American men stationed overseas. Jubilee luminaries included Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, and Ella Fitzgerald. Most of the shows were recorded before live audiences in Los Angeles. This particular episode featured bandleaders known for their New York flavor, like Claude Hopkins. Songstress Ida James was emcee. Mel Allen, later the famed voice of the New York Yankees, announced.

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian. She was born in 1893 in Wichita, Kansas...and was the youngest of 13 children. Her father Henry had fought in the Civil War. Her mother was a gospel singer, both had been slaves. After graduating from high school McDaniel started working as a songwriter and performer. In the 1920s she began performing on the radio, and embarked on a recording career. In 1927 McDaniel had a hit with One Sorrowing Heart. In 1932 McDaniel made her first movie appearance as a maid, and unfortunately was labeled with that stereotype the rest of her life. Facing discrimination and limited opportunities. However, McDaniel remained a trailblazer and an inspiration to many. In 1939, Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress in the classic film Gone With the Wind. She appeared in 300 films during her career, including Johnny Come Lately, with James Cagney in 1943. McDaniel stopped acting in movies after 1949, but switched to television, and continued to perform on radio, becoming the first black actor to star in her own radio program, the comedy series Beulah in 1947 on CBS Radio. When the sitcom transitioned to ABC-TV in 1950, Ethel Waters had the starring role, but quit after the first year. McDaniel replaced Waters but became to ill to perform after filming just 6 episodes. You're going to hear Hattie McDaniel on the Eddie Cantor radio show with Humphrey Bogart in 1941. The on the all-black Blueberry Hill Program, a pilot recorded by CBS Radio in 1943. And performing as Beulah on the Bing Crosby radio program in 1949. More at KRobCollection.com

We're celebrating the 50th episode of the Hirschfeld Century Podcast in style with a look back at your favorite episodes. Plus, David and Katherine answer your burning Hirschfeld questions and a few surprises are revealed! Thank you to everyone for listening for the last 50 episodes. We couldn't do it without your support and we look forward to telling more stories from the world of Hirschfeld! Follow along with the show notes to view the works and previous episodes mentioned in this episode. Links for episodes go to alhirschfeldfoundation.org/podcasts. Check your service's listings for past episodes. Episode 1 - Fiddler on the Roof Episode 39 - The Murals of 1958 Episode 49 - Hirschfeld and Perelman Episode 45 - 1964 Episode 43 - Brooks Atkinson & The Lively Years Episode 44 - Disney Episode 23 - Interview with Eric Goldberg Episode 33 - The Dog Show (Online Exhibition) Episode 4 - What's My Line Episode 36 - Call Her Madam: Sex, Crime, and Fun in Polly Adler's New York (Online Exhibition with Debbie Applegate) Episode 32 - It Goes So Fast - Our Town (Online Exhibition with Howard Sherman) Episode 12 - Justin "Squigs" Robertson Episode 48 - Hirschfeld's Drag Show (Online Exhibition with Charles Busch) Episode 27 - Hal Prince Alex Trebek, 1999 The West Wing, 2001 Alias, 2002 The King of Queens, 2001 The Nanny, 1999 The Golden Girls, 1991 The Sopranos, 2001 Bust of Abraham Lincoln, 1919 Episode 38 - Bali Bali Works, 1932 1927 Cubism-inspired works (Rang Tang, Ethel Waters, and Katherine Renwick) Lorne Michaels (with Zeppo Marx), 1999 Tommy Tune, 2002 (Final Published Hirschfeld Drawing) Episode 41 - Prints Evita, 1979 The Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot Deck is available now online and where most books are sold. Order here!  Visit our website Visit our shop Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our Youtube Channel   Watch Hirschfeld Moments: Ep.4 - Hirschfeld Draws a Star! Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram HirschfeldHomestyle.com The Hirschfeld Package at The Algonquin Hotel

Today's show features music performed by Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters

Vincent and Len share their directorial ideas for Blacula and The Adventures of Pluto Nash, ruminate on the 1990s discography of Stevie Wonder, and list the Top 5 Black Devils in Media. Then the Men of Micheaux give their 398th movie review, falling in love all over again with Ethel Waters and Lena Horne (and Rochester) in 1943's Cabin In The Sky. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on Instagram Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's show features music performed by Muddy Waters, Sippie Wallace, and Ethel Waters

Cavalcade of America was an radio anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company. It occasionally presented musicals, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953. In 1952, the show featured the true story of a black family of sharecroppers, who overcome tremendous odds through hard working and appreciating the value of education. It stars two great African-American actors, Ethel Waters, and Jester Hairston.  More at KRobCollection.com

WE'RE BACK!!! Josephine Baker, the woman that you are. Today Fatou and Maz discuss Josephine Baker's upbringing, her move to Paris, life as a spy during WWII, her rainbow children and her scandalous lovers!   Correction: On the episode, I referred to Bessie Smith when I meant to say Ethel Waters.    Email: DinnerPartyHistoryPod@gmail.com Where to Find Us: Fatou's Instagram Fatou's Tiktok Maz's Instagram Maz's Tiktok

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There's going to be a free form mix of sounds this week with some ‘scenes of devastation' as well as some blues and tradition. We'll set the tone with a song that inspired the title lines from The Pine Hill Project and then head into some tradition and some covers that speak in the language of the sacred and secular…from Saturday night at the juke to Sunday morning in the pew. A great mix of sounds from some classic female blues gems from the 1940s like Wea Bea Booze and Ethel Waters. We'll also go down to the crossroads and Deep Elem with the likes of Champion Jack Dupree and T-Bone Walker, some deeper/darker blues from Geeshie Wiley and Blind Lemon Jefferson as well. But we'll also fill the air with the tops in great interpretations from Van Dyke Parks, Willie Watson and Bob Brozman. Join us for some ‘last kind words' from the Rocky Road Blues to James Alley on a Friday morning in West County.

In 1929, Nick Fanning, a Wall Street stockbroker on the rise, longs for affection from his aristocratic parents but would gladly settle for acceptance. He gets neither from them but finds the potential for both in a chance meeting with a young bohemian playwright named GW Harwood. Created and Directed by Paul Pakler and Shane Portman. Executive Produced by Paul Pakler, Shane Portman, and David Switzer. Produced and assistant directed by Ruth Gamble. Produced by Genevieve LeDoux.  Our cast includes: Corey Rieger, Will Von Vogt, Tom Amandes, Dana Weddle, Corey Pepper, Paul Pakler, Becky Poole, Deneen Melody, and Susan Ruttan. Music by Maesa Pullman and engineered by Jason Hiller at Electrosound Records.  Edited by Sam Rhodes. Audio engineering by Kevin Cleland and Erik Nyquist. Audio post-production by One Thousand Birds (OTB). Original sound design and mixing by Jackie! Zhou, Torin Geller and Kal Pipal. OTB executive produced by Guin Frehling. Developmental producers: by Joey Scarillo and Genevieve Gearity. Recorded at LA Digital Recording and QED Studios Astoria.  

In this last episode of Season 4, we're going to find out more about the Black female entertainers who lit up the stages of 1920s America: who they were, the (many) struggles they faced, and all the ways they absolutely slayed. We'll meet blues singers like Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Mamie Smith, as well as dancers like Josephine Baker. (Content warning: brief discussion of lynching). Want more Exploress while the main feed takes a brief hiatus? I'll be regularly posting bonus episodes over on Patreon. You'll find show notes for this episode at my Exploress website. You can now buy my ladycentric timelines, maps, and art prints at the Exploress shop.  Also, did you know: I've got a novel out! NIGHTBIRDS is a 1920s-tinted fantasy about girls who will gift their magic with a kiss...for a price. I think you might just like it. And the sequel's coming out later this year, so there's never been a better time to dive in.  

In July of 2019 host Hopeton Hay interviewed Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, and Eldridge Cleaver and Muhammad Ali.  In the book Dr. Jelks examined their autobiographical writings, interviews, speeches, letters, and memorable performances to understand how each of these figures used religious faith publicly to reconcile deep personal struggles, voice their concerns for human dignity, and reinvent their public image.Randal Maurice Jelks is an award-winning author, documentary film producer, and professor. He is the author of four books. His writings have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, blogs, journals, and periodicals.  You can learn more about Dr. Jelks on his web site at Home - Randal Maurice Jelks. Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com

Great recordings made by Ethel Waters in 1938 and 1939 for Bluebird . . accompanied by her husband at the time, Eddie Mallory and His Orchestra which included Mallory, Shirly Clay, Tyree Glenn, Castor McCord, Benny Carter, Garvin Bushell, Reginald Beane, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton and Charles Turner --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

In 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records. In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, William Grant Still, and Alberta Hunter, artists who transformed American music. But Black Swan's success would be short-lived. Just a couple years after Pace founded the company, larger, wealthier, white competitors started to take an interest in the artists whose careers Pace had propelled. Then, Pace's own life took a mysterious turn. This episode was originally published in 2021.

"Taking a Chance on Love" (dándole una chance al amor) es una canción popular del musical de Broadway de 1940 Cabin in the Sky. Fue presentado por Ethel Waters. La canción fue escrita por Vernon Duke con letra de John La Touche y Ted Fetter (ver 1940 en música). Se ha convertido en un estándar. Las cantantes, Goodman, Lester, Grapelli, guitarristas y otros nos deleitan hoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

George Feltenstein of the Warner Archive joins the podcast to review four classic films released in January for the first time on Blu-ray. We're shining the projector light on the pre-code film "Faithless," (1932) where Tallulah Bankhead's riveting performance will grip you as we unravel the fabric of her character's tumultuous journey from riches to rags.  Next, we waltz through the restoration brilliance of "The Prince and the Pauper" starring the charismatic Errol Flynn and the Mauch twins.  Then we horse around with the timeless hilarity of the Marx Brothers in "A Day at the Races." We wrap up with the jazzy musical "A Cabin in the Sky," starring Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, and Lena Horne, and with appearances by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.  It's a fantastic start to 2024 for fans of classic films.  We provide a review of each film,  the restoration, and all of the extras to help you decide if you want to add it to your physical media collection.Purchase links:A DAY AT THE RACES (1937) Blu-rayTHE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Blu-rayCABIN IN THE SKY  (1943) Blu-rayFAITHLESS  (1932) Blu-ray The Extras Facebook pageThe Extras Twitter Warner Archive & Warner Bros Catalog GroupOtaku Media produces podcasts, behind-the-scenes extras, and media that connect creatives with their fans and businesses with their consumers. Contact us today to see how we can work together to achieve your goals. www.otakumedia.tv

Tex and Jinx 47-08-06 Guest - Ethel Waters

From the year 1941, it's Forecast, a CBS Radio show that presented new or experimental programs the network was hoping would catch on with the public or sponsors. This edition had an all African-American cast, with two half hour segments. The first is Tree of Hope, broadcast from New York, the second is Jubilee broadcast from Hollywood. Forecast stars singer-actress Ethel Waters, bandleader/composer Duke Ellington, movie actor Herb Jeffries, Wonderful Smith, and many others. More at http://krobcollection.com

C'est une histoire vieille de plus de 100 ans, une histoire incroyable, de celles qui dessinent de nouvelles images dans notre imaginaire. Aux toutes premières heures du 20ème siècle, dans les états ségrégationnistes du sud des US, une musique incarnée et envoutante éclot et s'épanouit : le blues. Et ce sont des femmes, contrairement à la mythologie qui s'imposera plus tard, qui vont porter sur scène cette nouvelle musique : Bessie Smith, Lucille Bogan, Ethel Waters, Ida Cox et leur mère à toutes Gertrude Ma Rainey. Dans ce premier épisode, on suit les traces de Ma Rainey dans sa Géorgie natale puis sur les chemins poussiéreux du Sud lorsqu'elle intègre une troupe itinérante de Minstrel Shows. On est avec elle lorsqu'elle rencontre le blues sous une petite tente quelque part dans le Missouri puis lorsque, sur scène, elle rompt avec les codes racistes de l'époque et fait rayonner cette nouvelle musique avec toute la force, l'audace et la lumière dont elle est dotée. C'est Steven Jezo-Vannier, auteur de Ma Rainey la mère du blues » paru aux éditions Le Mot et le Reste qui nous peint le portrait de cette femme libre, lumineuse et essentielle mais que l'histoire a pourtant grandement oubliée. Une séquence réalisée par Jonathan Remy Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 15h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines this circuit of vaudeville theaters active between 1920 and 1930 which booked blues singers, comedians, dancers, and many other kinds of entertainers into Black-serving theaters throughout the United States. T.O.B.A. launched and nurtured the careers of many Black performers including Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Hattie McDaniel. Scott traces T.O.B.A.'s antecedents in the first decades of the twentieth century and documents the ten years of its existence. She contextualizes T.O.B.A. within the politics of segregated America, the Black communities served by its theaters, and its effect on the lives and careers of thousands of Black performers. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stories of seven notable vaudevillians who came from Philadelphia, including W.C. Fields, Ethel Barrymore, and Ethel Waters. (We also briefly profile Ed Wynn, Larry Fine, Walter C. Kelly, and the woman known as "Sober Sue.") Was Philadelphia "The Cradle of Vaudeville" in the same way it was The Cradle of the Nation? After listening to the show, let us know what you think! Write to us at: AITHpodcast@gmail.com On our website, there's a blog post with a Bibliography of the sources for this episode, plus lots of images of the many Philly vaudeville theaters we discuss on it  - "Two Ethels, a Juggler, a Judge, a Stooge and a Perfect Fool": https://www.aithpodcast.com/blog/two-ethels-a-juggler-a-judge-a-stooge-and-a-perfect-fool/If you liked the show, leave a Review on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-in-theater-history-philadelphia/id1562046673Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AITHpodcastFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aithpodcast/Our website: https://www.aithpodcast.com/To become a supporter the show, go to: AITHpodcast@patreon.com© Podcast text copyright, Peter Schmitz. All rights reserved. ℗ All voice recordings copyright Peter Schmitz. ℗ All original music and compositions within the episodes copyright Christopher Mark Colucci. Used by permission.

Its time for Jubilee, a radio program that featured African American musicians and singers Most of the shows were staged in Los Angeles and broadcast to US. Troops around the world. This 1942 episode features composer, pianist, and orchestra leader Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters a singer and actress who in 1939 was the first African-American to appear in her own TV show, and Eddie Anderson, an actor and comedian, who was a popular co-star on the Jack Benny Show. More at http://krobcollection.com

Today, I'm so excited to announce my episode with Broadway director Schele Williams, who is helming the upcoming Broadway productions of The Wiz and The Notebook. Tune in to hear some of the stories of her long career, including what her new vision is for The Wiz, the International power of Rent, the process of revising Aida, the joys of telling the story of Ethel Waters, switching career paths, collaborating with Ben Vereen, her thoughts on leading a rehearsal room, and so much more. You won't want to miss this interview with one of the most important people in the theater today.

All The News & Knowledge You Need To Get You Through October 31, 2023. Happy Halloween & Tune-Up Tuesday! . On This Day: Frederick Douglas Memorial Hospital; Ethel Waters; John Henry Lewis; Earl Lloyd. . News From UNN - www.myunn.net . All Episodes of This Is The G Podcast Are At: www.castropolis.net . #castropolispodcastnetwork #TuneUpTuesday #blackhistory #news #blackpodcast #podcast #DailyPodcast #atlantapodcast #AtlantaGa #EthelWaters #JohnHenryLewis  #EarlLloyd #RichardRoundtree #dailypodcast #Atlanta #HappyHalloween2023

RuPaul's Drag Race first aired on TV in 2009, but the New York City drag scene that launched RuPaul started over a century earlier. From drag balls to Wigstock, New York has long been considered the capital of drag culture. Joining me in this episode to discuss New York City's rich history of drag is writer Elyssa Maxx Goodman, author of Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “The New York Glide,” written by Tim Delaney and performed by Ethel Waters and Albury's Blue & Jazz Seven in May 1921; the performance is in the public domain. The episode image is Lady Bunny, photographed by Tai Seef during Wigstock 2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Additional Sources: “How Drag Queens Have Sashayed Their Way Through History,” by Sam Sanders and Josh Axelrod, NPR, June 27, 2019. “The US has a rich drag history. Here's why the art form will likely outlast attempts to restrict it,” by Scottie Andrew, CNN, April 29, 2023. “From police raids to pop culture: The early history of modern drag,” by Emily Martin, National Geographic, June 2, 2023. “The Evolution of Drag: A History of Self-Expressionism,” by Gaelle Abou Nasr, Arcadia, December 12, 2021. “InQueery: Trixie Mattel Breaks Down the History of ‘Drag,'” Them, September 20, 2018. “Julian Eltinge was the most famous drag queen ever. What happened? [video]”, PBS American Masters, February 18, 2021. “A century ago, this star ‘female impersonator' made men swoon,” by Randy Dotinga, The Washington Post, June 24, 2023. “Mob Queens [podcast],” by Jessica Bendinger & Michael Seligman. “Stonewall Riots,” History.com, Originally posted May 31, 2017, and updated June 23, 2023. “Marsha Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and the history of Pride Month,” Smithsonian, June 7, 2021. “Before There Was ‘RuPaul's Drag Race,' There Was Wigstock,” by Michael Appeler, Variety, May 6, 2019. “The Pyramid Club: New York City's First Drag Landmark,” by Dawson Knick, Village Preservation, July 25, 2019. “Wigstock Returns From the Dead,” by Jacob Bernstein, The New York Times, August 15, 2018. “New Heights for a Diva: RuPaul's TV Talk Show,” by Andrea Higbie, The New York Times, October 20, 1996. “Behind the Rise of RuPaul's Drag Race,” by Maria Elena Fernandez, Variety, August 22, 2017. “There Has Never Been a Show Like RuPaul's Drag Race,” by David Canfield, Vanity Fair, August 27, 2021. “RuPaul Shares the Origin of His Name and Drag Persona [video],” Late Night with Seth Meyers, February 12, 2020. “NYPD Commissioner Apologizes For 'Oppressive' 1969 Raid On Stonewall Inn,” by Bobby Allyn and Dani Matias, NPR, June 6, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Junk Food Dinner returns this month for its 666th episode and you know what that means; this month is all about the Dark Lord Satan! Up first, we take a look at an MGM musical from 1943 with an all-black cast about a man struggling with the forces of good and evil to stay on the right path in Cabin in the Sky starring Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong. Next, two orphaned teenage girls living in a convent summon Satan and cause a panic in the Mexican exploitation flick Alucarda from 1977.And finally, Wes Craven directs a made-for-TV movie about a family that moves to Silicon Valley to chase tech dreams but soon finds out that keeping up with the Joneses might mean getting involved with The Devil in Invitation to Hell from 1984 starring Robert Urich, Joanna Cassidy, Susan Lucci and Kevin McCarthy. All this plus Barbenhiemer news, what we've been up to, sad Nerd News, Enter the Dragon anniversary news and much more!LISTEN NOW:MP3 Direct DonloydAlso, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll keep this podcast going with your love and support.

Cicely Tyson (and a young, energetic Geoffrey Holder) makes her feature film debut, and the great Ethel Waters nears the end of the road at the top of the call sheet in this 'diamond in the rough' YouTubed for your enjoyment by ReelBlack. That's about the only thing it has going for it (besides the sweaty villainy of Richard Ward), but this ep offers a TOP FIVE Black Gold Movies, SIX DEGREES of Lorraine Toussaint and Romany Malco, FadesGiving, Romper Room, and much more. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave a Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shellac Stack No. 321 salutes the ladies! From Keely Smith and Eartha Kitt to Ethel Waters, Annette Hanshaw, Helen Forrest, Dolly Dawn, and more, we spend this hour swingin', swayin', jumpin', and relaxin' with 16 female vocalists of the 1920s-1950s.

Today, I'm so excited to announce my episode with star of stage and screen Leslie Uggams. Leslie's new movie Dotty & Soul is now out on all streaming platforms. Tune in today to hear her talk about how meaningful the part of Dotty is to, as well as tell stories about her Broadway career, including taking acting lessons with Stella Adler and Sal Mineo, her early friendship with Ethel Waters, talking to Arthur Laurents about the role of Madame Rose, why Her First Roman wasn't successful, dealing with Carol Channing's allergies, reading Hallelujah, Baby! while David Merrick fell asleep, and so much more. You won't want to miss this illuminating conversation with a legend of the stage.

Yves shines a spotlight on the fascinating and storied history of entertainer Ethel Waters.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

Mindi presents The Big Show from 1951-03-18 episode (020) with Tallulah Bankhead, Fred Allen, Eddie Cantor, Eddie Fisher, Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Waters, etc.

This is the second part of my conversation with director Sheldon Epps whose very engaging new book is titled: My Own Directions — A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre. This week we follow Epps' journey as it takes him from New York to California, first to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego to his appointment as Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse which makes him the first black person to lead a major theater company in Southern California, and one of the only three artists of color to hold that position nationwide.  As you will hear, both this week and next, Epps' two decades at the Pasadena Playhouse are packed with high drama, both on and off the stage, including artistic triumphs, financial disasters, and both subtle and overt racism. However, during his tenure the Playhouse is radically transformed and reinvigorated by his leadership.  One of the highlights of the book and this episode is an unbelievable but absolutely true story involving Epps first visit to the Pasadena Playhouse and the legendary black star Ethel Waters! I also enjoyed our discussion of the certain amount of arrogance that is needed to be an Artistic Director. As Sheldon once told a Playhouse Board Member, “If you ever have an Artistic Director who is not a bit arrogant — fire them!” Become A PATRON of Broadway Nation! This episode is made possible in part by the generous support of"Producer Level” Patron ROBERT BRAUN If you are a fan ofBroadway Nation, I invite you too to become a PATRON! For a just $7.00 a month you can receive exclusive access to never-before-heard, unedited versions of many of the discussion that I have with my guests — in fact I often record nearly twice as much conversation as ends up in the edited versions. And you will also have access to additional in-depth conversations with my frequent co-host Albert Evans that have not been featured on the podcast. And all patrons receive special “on-air” shout-outs and acknowledgement of your vital support of this podcast. Special thanks to our newest PATRONS: Ruth Oberg Juan J. Neumeister and Kelly Allen And If you are very enthusiastic about Broadway Nation there are additional PATRON levels that come with even more benefits. If you would like to support the work of Broadway Nation and receive these exclusive member benefits, please just click on this link: https://broadwaynationpodcast.supercast.tech/ Thank you in advance for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records. In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, William Grant Still, Alberta Hunter, and other influential artists who transformed American music. But Black Swan's success would be short-lived. Just a couple years after Pace founded the company, larger, wealthier, white competitors started to take an interest in the artists whose careers Pace had propelled. Then, Pace's own life took a mysterious turn. This episode originally aired on NPR's All Things Considered in 2021.

December 24, 1942 - Command Performance featuring Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Harriet Hilliard, The Andrews Sisters, Spike Jones, Bing Crosby, Kay Kaiser, Ginny Simms, Ethel Waters, Charles Laughton, Edger Bergan and Charlie McCartney, Dinah Shore, Fred Allen and Jack Benny.