The Ethel Waters Show

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The Ethel Waters Show was a one-hour American television variety special that ran in the earliest days of NBC Television, on June 14, 1939, and was hosted by actress and singer Ethel Waters. [1] Waters was the first black performer, male or female, to have her own TV show and may very well have been the first black person to appear on television. [2] [3]

The special was transmitted from the NBC Studios in New York [4] over NBC's New York station W2XBS. [5]

The special included Waters performing a dramatic sequence from her most recent Broadway play Mamba's Daughters , along with two actresses from the production, Georgette Harvey and Fredi Washington. The cast also included Joey Faye and Philip Loeb, performing skits.

References

  1. ↑ The Ethel Waters Show
  2. ↑ Bogle, Donald. Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television excerpt via The New York Times
  3. ↑ "First Black Seen on Television" . Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  4. ↑ Bourne, Stephen (2007). Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather.
  5. ↑ Robertson, Patrick (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time


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