Credits

• 2006 · Cries in the Dark as Mom
• 2005 · Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
• 2003 · Piano Blues as Self (archive footage)
• 1994 · Leprechaun 2 as Housewife
• 1993 · Umbria Jazz Story as herself
• 1993 · Black and Blue: A Musical Revue as Singer
• 1991 · The Colored Museum as Aunt Ethel
• 1987 · Disorderlies as Buffy's Mother
• 1984 · Go Tell It on the Mountain as Sister McCandless
• 1982 · Honkytonk Man as Blues Singer
• 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
• 1982 · American Playhouse as Sister McCandless
• 1981 · Purlie as Sister Hopkins
• 1979 · Roots: The Next Generations as Singer
• 1976 · Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s as Self
• 1974 · The Education of Sonny Carson as Lil Boy's Mother
• 1971 · Great Performances as Aunt Ethel
• 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• 1956 · Rockin' the Blues as Self
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee