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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, on June 14, 1939, and was hosted by actress and singer Ethel Waters.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984870/fullcredits The Ethel Waters Show] 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.[https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bogle-blues.html Bogle, Donald. 'Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television' excerpt via] The New York Times
The special was transmitted from the NBC Studios in New York[https://books.google.com/books?id=r7bTFQSfZboC&lpg=PA141&dq=%22The%20Ethel%20Waters%20Show%22&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false Bourne, Stephen (2007). 'Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather'. ] over W2XBS.[https://books.google.com/books?id=2TEEaCrPiWsC&lpg=PT129&dq=%22The%20Ethel%20Waters%20Show%22&pg=PT129#v=onepage&q&f=false Robertson, Patrick (2011). 'Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time']
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.
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