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Ethel Waters
2009-10-20 00:00:00
repeated their roles in the 1952 film version of Member of the Wedding.

In 1950, Waters starred in the television series Beulah but quit after complaining that the scripts were portraying African-Americans as "degrading." Despite these successes, her brilliant career was fading. She lost tens of thousands in jewelry and cash in a robbery, and the IRS hounded her. Her health suffered, and Waters worked only sporadically in following years.`In 1950-51 she wrote her biography "His Eye is on the Sparrow" with Charles Samuels. In it, she talks candidly about her life. She also explains why her age was confused, saying that her mama had to sign a paper saying she was 4 years older that she was. She states she was born in 1900.

Said her biographer Rosetta Reitz, Waters was a natural. Her "songs are enriching, nourishing. You will want to play them over and...