ETHEL WATERS - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/03/1976 - HFSID 270786
Sale Price $795.00
Reg. $950.00
ETHEL WATERS. Contract signed: "Ethel Waters" as
Performer, 2p, 8½x12, front and verso. Los Angeles, California, 1976 June
3. Headed: "Standard AFTRA Engagement Contract". Waters contracts with
Winchester, Ltd. for an appearance on Dinah! at TV City, Los Angeles on
June 3, 1976. She was to be paid $371.75 for her appearance; a listing of
rates for compensation for replays is listed at lower portion. Also
signed by a Prodcuer for Winchester, Ltd. Signed the year Waters appeared
in archival footage in That's Entertainment, Part II - and the year
before she died of heart disease. Blues singer Ethel Waters (1896-1977), who
was known as "Sweet Mama Stringbean", performed in Philadelphia before appearing
at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem (1917) and performing at the Cotton Club
in the 1920s. She was also one of the most prominent Black stage and screen
stars of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1949, Waters was nominated for an
Academy Award for her performance as Granny Dysey Johnson, the worldly wise
grandmother of Patricia "Pinky" Johnson, a light-skinned Black woman struggling
with her identity, in Pinky (1949). Waters also played the title role
in Beulah, the first television dramatic series to star a Black
performer (1950-1952). Lightly creased with folds, not at signatures. ¼-inch
separation at blank left margin at fold. Minor show through of type on verso.
Fine condition.
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