| Ethel Waters was the first black
Superstar...an innovator who opened all the theatrical doors hitherto closed
to black performers of her day, to attain the towering position she reached
as a headliner. She fought hard and long to achieve solo star status in
the white world of vaudeville, night clubs, Broadway theater, radio, films
and television. More than any other black performer of the century, Ethel
Waters was a woman of the theater, and the celebrity she attained in maturity
as an actress tended at times to overshadow-at least in memory-the importance
of her accomplishments and influence as a singer. |
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