Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Butterfly McQueen, Oscar Polk, Clinton Rosemond, and Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943)

"Cabin in the Sky" Rex Ingram, Lena Horne, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ethel Waters 1943 MGM

Ethel Waters at an event for Beulah (1950)

Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates, Julie Harris, and Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding (1952)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson and Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, and Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, and Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Robert Young, Jeanette MacDonald, and Ethel Waters in Cairo (1942)

Robert Young, Jeanette MacDonald, W.S. Van Dyke, and Ethel Waters in Cairo (1942)

Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters in Pinky (1949)

Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson in Cairo (1942)

Robert Young, Jeanette MacDonald, Grant Mitchell, Reginald Owen, and Ethel Waters in Cairo (1942)

Sammy Davis Jr., Hamtree Harrington, and Ethel Waters in Rufus Jones for President (1933)

Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Hall Johnson Choir, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Kenneth Spencer, and Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates, Julie Harris, and Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding (1952)

Rex Ingram, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, and Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943)