Ethel Waters Autograph

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first African American to star on her own television show, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. More about Ethel Waters

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Current items with a signature of Ethel Waters

These are the most current items with a signature of Ethel Waters that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.

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thumbnailBlues & Jazz Singer ETHEL WATERS Inscribed Signed Photo $250.00logo
thumbnailETHEL WATERS - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED$220.00logo
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962), by 17-year-old John Wesley (or Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background. Waters' family was very fair-skinned, his mother in particular. Many sources, including Ethel herself, reported for years that her mother was 12 or 13 years old at the time of the rape, 13 when Ethel was born. Stephen Bourne opens his 2007 biography, Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather, with the statement that genealogical research has shown that Louise Anderson may have been 15 or 16 years old.

Waters played no role in raising his daughter. Soon after she was born, her mother married Norman Howard, a railroad worker, with whom she had a daughter, Juanita Howard, Ethel's half-sister. Ethel used the surname Howard as a child and then reverted to using the surname Waters. She was raised in poverty by Sally Anderson, her grandmother, who worked as a housemaid, and with two of her aunts and an uncle. Waters never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. Of her difficult childhood, she said "I never was a child. I never was cuddled, liked, or understood by my family." Read even more about Ethel Waters at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Ethel Waters

The most expensive item with a signature of Ethel Waters (ETHEL WATERS - INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED) was sold in October 2021 for $500.00 while the cheapest item (ETHEL WATERS VINTAGE SIGNATURE **STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN**) found a new owner for $0.99 in July 2015. The month with the most items sold (1) was October 2011 with an average selling price of $18.50 for an autographed item of Ethel Waters. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2020 with $350.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $7.60 was October 2010. In average, an autographed item from Ethel Waters is worth $19.23.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Ethel Waters were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnail1951 ETHEL WATERS Signed Playbill Empire Theater “The Member Of The Wedding”$9.98logo
thumbnailETHEL WATERS AUTOGRAPHED 78 - DECCA No. 1613 - YOU'RE A SWEETHEART$11.50logo
thumbnailETHEL WATERS AUTOGRAPHED 78 RECORD - 1934 DECCA No. 140$23.95logo
thumbnailEthel Waters cut signature PSA/DNA slabbed Autograph Blues Jazz Gospel vocalist$139.00logo
thumbnailEthel Waters Jazz Blues Singer Actress Rare Signed Autograph Photo Display$99.99logo
thumbnailETHEL WATERS Jazz Singer & Actress extraordinary autographed letter, 1939$350.00logo
thumbnailETHEL WATERS Signed autograph album page$9.99logo
thumbnailEthel Waters Signed Autograph Jazz Singer Cut Auto Beckett BGS$19.95logo
thumbnailETHEL WATERS SIGNED SLABBED BECKETT BAS COA MUSIC SINGER ACTRESS AUTOGRAPHED$57.99logo
thumbnailSinger & Actress Ethel Waters Hand Written & Signed Letter & Photograph~108231$150.00logo