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- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There → Self (archive footage)
- Blues Masters → Self (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment, Part II → (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? → Self (archive footage)
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen → Self (archive footage)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli → Self (archive footage)
- The Pearl Bailey Show (TV) → Self
- The Barbara McNair Show (TV) → Self
- The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Daniel Boone (TV) → Rachael
- The Hollywood Palace (TV) → Self
- The Great Adventure (TV) → Rit
- The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self
- Route 66 (TV)
- The Sound and the Fury → Dilsey
- The Heart is a Rebel → Gladys
- The Steve Allen Show (TV) → Self - Singer
- Carib Gold → Mom
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower → Sunday School Teacher
- Playwrights '56 (TV)
- Climax! (TV) → Aunt Kate
- General Electric Theater (TV) → Mother
- The Member of the Wedding → Berenice Sadie Brown
- What's My Line? (TV) → Self
- The Beulah Show (TV) → Beulah
- Pinky → Dicey Johnson
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
- Soundies Festival
- Stage Door Canteen → Ethel Waters
- Cabin in the Sky → Petunia Jackson
- The Voice That Thrilled the World → Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
- Tales of Manhattan → Esther
- Cairo → Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
- Let My People Live
- Gift of Gab → Herself
- Bubbling Over → Ethel Peabody
- Rufus Jones for President → Mother of Rufus
- On With the Show! → Ethel