Ethel Waters chats with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly about her early career and sings "Cabin in the Sky" in this rare 1976 TV appearance.
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@sluggzmcgee74205 жыл бұрын
She would pass on a year later, 2 months before her 81st birthday. I love her laugh, her spirit, her outlook on life. Despite all the hell she went through as a Black actress in Hollywood, she is sweet, grateful, humble, and still had so much love and wisdom to bestow. I love, respect, and miss her so much. ETHEL WATERS {1896-1977}
@jonboxleitner73543 жыл бұрын
Wow. A bygone era. No one talks with such grace and appreciation in entertainment these days. And the talent was off the charts. I love Ethel Waters.
@chaplaintaylor23277 жыл бұрын
I pray that Ethel Waters have not just a cabin, but a Mansion in heaven with her name on it...Amen
@brendagray92966 жыл бұрын
Marsha Taylor for in my father's house are many mansions!! No cabinets.
@2dasimmons6 жыл бұрын
HalleluYAH!
@stevencohn395 жыл бұрын
MARSHA, SHE DID AND STILL DOES. SHE WAS A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER LATER IN LIFE.
@bosslady11885 жыл бұрын
Preach
@bosslady11885 жыл бұрын
@@brendagray9296 Don't start nothing. Wys...
@DanStill3924 күн бұрын
As a child listening to Ethel Waters on the radio in my grand mothers quaint little 1 bedroom home (with outside toilet), I was mesmerized by her voice and talent. She became my grandmother when mine passed away suddenly in 1952. God bless you Ethel!
@doctordave42473 ай бұрын
Ethel Waters was an American treasure. I hope that the love we have for her reaches her cabin in the sky.
@arlisssrstka12343 жыл бұрын
She was trulya wonderful gift from God How blessed we are
@barbaraeffros48043 жыл бұрын
Thank you Alan for keeping her memory alive. Ethel Waters sang with all her heart and soul.
@cellis30457 жыл бұрын
That lady is something else....what a wonderful, sweet, genuine person x
@ravenkeefer31435 жыл бұрын
"Humble and grateful", this is class. More should know of her... Performance through decades, reknown...humble and grateful...
@gtlfb3 жыл бұрын
She started singing and I started tearing up. Just lovely.
@rosieschweebie3 жыл бұрын
She loved God, and was a beautiful singer and actor! How lovely Ethel Water’s was!!
@sunnydayzie12027 жыл бұрын
who could dislike this?? the cream of 20th century show business all sitting right there. the golden age from vaudeville to film...never to be again. love each of them!
@stevencohn395 жыл бұрын
WHAT A LADY, FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND I DEAR NOT LEAVE OUT THE 2 MEN TO HER LEFT WHOM I GREATLY RESPECT ASTAIRE AND KELLY!
@alishagay24823 жыл бұрын
You are so right wish we had more precious people like this
@Secondrunnerup6133 жыл бұрын
She was a wonderful lady, singer and star. She isnt filled with your man made holy spirit....Gd given passion and inspiration maybe... The xtian life she lead was such a shame. Too bad she fell into pagan idolatry near the end of her life. Even here, on this video she's trying to sell that pagan nonsense. Such a crying shame. May Hashem have mercy on her idolatrous soul.
@adrianlawuary97688 жыл бұрын
Had never heard of this lady in 40plus years. What a woman. What a talent. ..
@susanlloyd73955 жыл бұрын
"My boy Gene" that tells us all we need to know about Gene Kelly-egalitarian and great artist.
@hermeniaparker24665 жыл бұрын
WOW! She still had her voice at that age. Beautiful!
@michaelmcgarry77015 жыл бұрын
I first was introduced to Miss Waters when she played "Beulah" on tv...it ran for years during the day Monday-Friday...and then became more familiar with her career... a great actress...
@permogensen39646 жыл бұрын
LOVE IT ALL - rip Ethel Waters - God bless her
@michaelhorton13507 жыл бұрын
Whew! This lady is magic. Impossible to tear attention away from her. Depth? OH YES. Thanks for this wonderful post.
@Camop-iz9kt7 жыл бұрын
Amazing that the whole soundstage went silent when she started to sing.
@judywatson56745 жыл бұрын
beautiful we don't have talent like that anymore
@Juliaflo Жыл бұрын
You said it.
@joannkelly79943 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. All Rest In Peace.
@zigfried642 жыл бұрын
Watch Mike's reaction when she sings the song. He looks as if he is in heaven. He knows he is in the presence of greatness.
@brendamurphy97955 жыл бұрын
She knew the love of Jesus..what a lovely song to remind us that God has prepared a place for us..well done sister Ethel. .your still touching souls today in 2019..you made me cry...mother murphy
@clara-cookie1194 жыл бұрын
Three very talented people. Respect!
@TheDaydreammaster3 жыл бұрын
Man! If we were so full of love peace and joy today, as this perfectly beautiful woman we would all be so much better off in 2021. My grandmother was born in the same era. She also sung and spoke in similar fashion as Ethel Waters. You can always know a holy spirit filled christian. God's abounding joy and love just drip from them! Can YOU relate!? Can U see it?! Look with your heart. It becomes appearent!
@abevillanueva19744 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a lovely person! Reminds me so much of my grandma!
@s.t.martin79396 жыл бұрын
WOW!! I'm Quite Sure That Miss Waters Is Definitely Singling & Rejoicing in HER "Cabin in the Sky!!" And Our Lord God is Her Conductor & Music Master!!!
@sandymanor38954 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL.INTERVIEW WITH ETHYL WATERS!! REFRESHING LOVELY WOMAN. AND... "CABIN IN THE SKY"...ONE GREAT FILM IN THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD!! HISTORY
@truecancer3 жыл бұрын
I cry every time I see this. When giants walked the earth. xxx
@thecatman4ever5 жыл бұрын
Ethel Waters is a lovely woman and an outstanding actress!
@douglassharpe556 жыл бұрын
Mike did a real nice interview job with a wide range of stars, didn't he? Ethel, a beautiful presentation here, and such fine complements to the two hoofers. I notice Fred kept his mouth shut for some reason, let Gene carry the comments. Let's hope Ethel is resting in peace, or, awake in Heaven.... same for the boys, Mike included, who all did such nice work during their lifetimes.
@JACEYFALK6 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL!!!! WOW!
@Jazzrok22288 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful !!!
@pamllewellyn80294 жыл бұрын
One and only- Ethel. We need her lovely persona in today's sad world. She is the precious one! Bless her.
@SWDetboy9 жыл бұрын
WOW! Priceless!
@donaldgon80193 жыл бұрын
Finally I know how someone like Ethel waters feels and I'm not a actor or a singer.
@JamesBrown-realtor8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this! I agree with the previous comments, there will never be another Ethel Waters.
@track12192 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this video, impressive lady!
@adrianlawuary97688 жыл бұрын
Found this today can't stop listening to it..I thought I had heard singing before. So.wrong. ...
@peter51dcruz383 жыл бұрын
What a Lady. I saw cabin in the sky on TV..it was terrific a lovely twist in the end.
@bosslady11885 жыл бұрын
Forgotten treasures
@princeandrey6 жыл бұрын
Once she got started, she sang quite movingly!
@a1diemus5 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!!
@BURNS2011able8 жыл бұрын
Awesome Job
@keenag07 Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed playing her character in class. I studied this interview like crazy.
@nickdellow60737 жыл бұрын
Her singing is poignant, tender and timeless
@bosslady11885 жыл бұрын
Spoken well...
@mskiara186 жыл бұрын
Viewing the video for the first time, I give my thanks for sharing. I express joy to see Ms. Waters, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Astaire together. I am curious if there exist more footage of Mr. Astaire conversing with Ms. Waters, as his comments are brief.
@Gangstagran7 жыл бұрын
She was the finest artiste of the 20th century. What a star!
@BURNS2011able8 жыл бұрын
Where ever you are you've got your cabin in the sky #2016
@MesaMynx4 жыл бұрын
" We see a certain amount of flash but we don't see depth".. She nailed that one. I adore her authenticity, and candor. Funny listening to white men dancing around " colored vs black " when they talk to her. Ethel was a such a gift. Her voice and her laugh is still the most beautiful medicine.
@LickYourChops7 жыл бұрын
S'wondeful, S'Marvellous. That is Ethel Waters.
@boblowney6 жыл бұрын
A treasure!
@ald6684 жыл бұрын
A great talent!
@panamaptypanamapty52692 жыл бұрын
Saludos desde Panamá
@esmeephillips58883 жыл бұрын
Ethel Waters was converted at a Billy Graham crusade in 1958. She was flat broke and her career was shot. She had behaved so bitchily and spitefully to colleagues over the previous 40 years that she could not get a break. But religion made her a far better person, and she mellowed into a national treasure during the Civil Rights era. Musically she was the bridge between blues shouters such as Rainey and Smith, whom she thought vulgar, and younger singers with crossover appeal such as Fitzgerald, Horne, Bailey, Vaughan and Holiday. By 1950 there were so many that she felt eclipsed and became resentful. But she had been the first black woman to star in racially integrated shows on Broadway, and 'Cabin in the Sky', though still segregated in casting, was a big step forward for black talent in Hollywood. The younger ladies owed her.
@callmeonkeshiasphone4 ай бұрын
Great summary
@navigatorjack69694 жыл бұрын
Beautiful Just Beautiful!!!
@adrianlawuary97688 жыл бұрын
OMG BETTER THAN AWESOME
@jasonboy35b95 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@ljsandahl4 жыл бұрын
This is the Mike Douglas Show? There should be plenty more footage; it was on five days a week.
@YouzTube998 жыл бұрын
02:51 If you want to hear Ms. Waters sing 'Am I Blue': kzbin.info/www/bejne/m56ynKiGprt3obM Countless singers point to her for the inspiration she provided. She did indeed pass less than a year after this interview.
@mrg74072 жыл бұрын
Racism aka Hate is easily defeated with Hard Work! Ethel gave 100% and so did the Gene & Fred. That is why they Loved each other. Hard Mutual Work is the kryptonite of Hate
@paigewashington60186 жыл бұрын
Come on Mama! I'm gonna make you proud!
@TheDepriecebradford3 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know the song Miss Ethel Waters is talking about when she says it made Dinah millions?
@aeichler3 жыл бұрын
The song "Dinah" (is there anyone finah?)
@TheDepriecebradford3 жыл бұрын
@@aeichler thank you
@DanStill3924 күн бұрын
Yes, Dinah that was sang by Lena Horne.
@jackrenglish5 жыл бұрын
yep
@sammavacaist3 жыл бұрын
Is this interviewer Merv Griffith? Or Mike Douglas?
@johanna29953 жыл бұрын
Mike Douglas
@NathanThePrezPretlow7 жыл бұрын
Is that Ethel Waters with one leg ?
@aeichler7 жыл бұрын
No, she just has the other one under her chair.
@callmeonkeshiasphone4 ай бұрын
lol haha
@SH-jc8jh8 жыл бұрын
Damn! - she died a year later after this interview.
@maatspear5 жыл бұрын
And she didnt make her 80th bday either, she died Sept 1 the following year.
@johnnywalker7964 жыл бұрын
She die in 1 of September 1977
@aliced75054 жыл бұрын
@@maatspear Two months short of 82. 1896 - 1977
@photographer97187 жыл бұрын
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896, as a result of the rape of her teen aged mother, Louise Anderson (believed to have been 13 years old at the time, with God all things are possible. Let's me rethink that abortion if you are raped argument .
@GeoStrum33 жыл бұрын
I love if Whoopie plays her life story.
@jsg65327747 жыл бұрын
Fred seems ill at ease, i dont think he enjoyed going back.
@MyLovelyDeadFriends5 жыл бұрын
it's not that, he just didn't like interviews and events such as these. he was very shy.
@aliced75054 жыл бұрын
@@MyLovelyDeadFriends Did not know that about him.
@garyb33976 жыл бұрын
Ethel Waters was notoriously jealous of Lena Horne - young and beautiful, and up and coming - and, according to Horne, treated her terribly. Was curious to see if Waters would say anything about Horne. Hardly surprised that she did not. "Humble" though she claims she was, she was very threatened by younger female talent.
@dw0706 жыл бұрын
you'd think, by the time of this interview, that that was all in the past.
@aliced75054 жыл бұрын
I wish she could have known how many people would come to love her over the decades to come. No physical beautiful could match her inner beauty. Such a lovely spirit. Imagine, she's singing to the Lord now. Took everything not to cry once she started to sing in this clip. Thank you for posting it.
@callmeonkeshiasphone4 ай бұрын
But is that so odd. Megan the stallion and nicki minaj dont get along, pearl bailey and dianh carrolll didnt get along for all the same reasons. lest we not focus on the bad
@princeandrey6 жыл бұрын
She once said that Billie Holiday, who was just starting out, sang like her shoes were too tight--kind of cruel to and not very prescient about someone whose star far eclipsed her own. Still, she's pretty great. When I was a kid in the 1950's I saw her interviewed on TV, and she remarked that a Black code word for a white person was "Ofay." I was astounded!
@aeichler6 жыл бұрын
Holiday became legend after her death, but Waters was the bigger star in her lifetime.
@princeandrey6 жыл бұрын
Yes. Billie Holiday had a wide coterie of fans, musicians and cognoscenti, mainly, and then left-wingers after she began to sing "Strange Fruit." Ethel Waters was a crowd-pleaser of sorts--I'm not saying she wasn't great, just much more accessible. She was also a good actress, even great in "Member of the Wedding." Pretty? Unless one is stretching the definition outlandishly, no. Though I think she looks pretty as an 80-year old, for sure.
@direfranchement6 жыл бұрын
Ethel Waters wasn't gracious to younger women until she was an old lady and found religion. She resented Billie. She was also resentful of Lena Horne. Both women were young enough to have been Ethel's daughter, but she resented the fate that becomes of all aging men and women in entertainment---being pushed aside for the next new thing. What's so funny about it is Billie Holiday started off her career sounding eerily similar to Ethel---listen to her first record, "Your Mother's Son In Law" and note the similarities. Ethel was the blueprint, a tremendous influence in the early years of sound recording.
@princeandrey6 жыл бұрын
Know "Mother's Son in Law" well, but now that you mention it, I recognize Ethel Waters in it. Never thought of that, and never thought of that song as exemplifying Billie very much, except of course, rhythmically. Interesting..
@direfranchement6 жыл бұрын
"Mother's Son In Law" is pure Ethel...from the diction to the expression, the talk-sing nature of her solo. Waters was so popular at that time, the most visible Black singer of the era. You can also hear Ethel on "Riffin the Scotch", both recorded in 1933. I think this simply represents a period where she was trying to hone her individual style---after all, she was only 18 years old. By the time Holiday returned to the studio in 1935 she had become what most would recognize as young Billie as we hear in her phrasing on "I Wished on the Moon" and "What a Little Moonlight" can do. Those first records, however, speak to the depth of Waters' influence on early Jazz. She was magnificent and I think no better fitting descriptor could be applied to her than that of "The Blueprint" because indeed she was.