Want to know the best Ethel Waters movies?  How about the worst Ethel Waters movies?  Curious about Ethel Waters box office grosses or which Ethel Waters movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ethel Waters movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information.

Ethel Waters (1896-1977) was an Oscar®-nominated American actress and singer.   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.  Her IMDb page shows 28 acting credits from 1929 to 1972.  This page will rank Ethel Waters movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.

Ethel Waters Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1942	Tales of Manhattan (1942)
1949	Pinky (1949) AA Best Supp Actress Nom
1943	Cabin in The Sky (1943)
1943	Stage Door Canteen (1943)
1952	The Member of the Wedding (1952)
1942	Cairo (1942)
1959	The Sound And The Fury (1959)
1934	Gift of Gab (1934)
1957	Carib Gold (1957) Limited Release
1958	The Heart Is A Rebel (1958) Limited Release

Ethel Waters Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

• Sort Ethel Waters movies by her co-stars
• Sort Ethel Waters movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Ethel Waters movies by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort Ethel Waters movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Ethel Waters movie received.
• Sort Ethel Waters movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Ethel Waters Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses 

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