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Pearl Bailey's Biography

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.

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  • News Source: Des Plaines Times | 18 days ago
    Contributing Columnist For one night only, music lovers can see the real E...The multiple Jeff Award winner, who is now playing Motormouth Maybelle in Marriott Theatre's production of "Hairspray," will star in her own cabaret show, "Just in Time: An
  • News Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun | 20 days ago
    One of the first pieces of trivia students of black history in Southern Nevada learn is that there was a time legendary entertainers such as Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey filled Strip showrooms but were forced by segregation to sleep on the
  • News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 28 days ago
    The first, "Raised on Radio," covered the airwave stars of the '30s and '40s. The second was "Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s." His new one, "Right Here on Our Stage Tonight: Ed Sullivan's America," is a history of

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  • Blog Source: www.tvcafe.cn | 19 days ago
    Season three ran 1978-1979 and featured 26 famous guest stars, including Roy Clark, Pearl Bailey, Jean Stapleton, Harry Belefonte, Danny Kaye, Cheryl Ladd, Raquel Welch, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Sylvester Stallone. ...
  • Blog Source: evilmonito.com | 19 days ago
    It's Pearl Bailey. Streetcars and speakeasies. Langston Hughes wrote poetry here. Duke Ellington grew up and played. It was the place to be in black Washington from 1920 until the '60s. Handsome buildings built with black capital, ...
  • Blog Source: community.livejournal.com | 19 days ago
    Hello, Dolly! with Pearl Bailey; Favorite showtune: "That's Enough for Me" from Romance in Hard Times by William Finn; Web obsession: NYTimes.com; Last book you read: "Water for Elephants"; Must-see TV show: "True Blood" & "The No. ...

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