[Dooley Wilson as "Little Joe" Jackson, Ethel Waters as Petunia Jackson, and Rex Ingram as Lucifer, Jr. in "Cabin in the Sky".]

[Ethel Waters as Hagar in "Mamba's Daughters".]

[Ethel Waters and Marcus Blechman.]

[Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown in "The Member of the Wedding".]

["At Home With Ethel Waters".]

[Ethel Waters.]

[Ethel Waters.]

[Lynnette Perry as Wolfe Bratts with Danny Strayhorn and David Jackson each playing One of The Jimmys in "Grand Hotel".]

[Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown in "The Member of the Wedding".]

[Lynnette Perry as Wolfe Bratts surrounded by Danny Strayhorn and David Jackson (each playing One of The Jimmys) in "Grand Hotel".]

["Mamba's Daughters" theater still.]

[Danny Strayhorn and David Jackson each playing One of The Jimmys in "Grand Hotel".]

[Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown in "The Member of the Wedding".]

[Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown in "The Member of the Wedding".]

[Patricia Neway, Ethel Waters and Cathleen Nesbitt.]

[Julie Harris as Frankie Addams and Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown in "The Member of the Wedding".]

[Paul Lynde as Mr. MacAfee in "Bye Bye Birdie".]

[Susan Watson as Kim MacAfee in "Bye Bye Birdie".]

[Julie Harris as Frankie Addams and Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown in "The Member of the Wedding".]

[Julie Harris as Frankie Addams, Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown, and Brandon De Wilde as John Henry West in "The Member of the Wedding".]