Carol Channing starred in the original Broadway cast of "Hello Dolly!" opening at the St. James Theatre on January 16, 1964. A few years later, Pearl Bailey played Dolly on that same stage and ...

"Hello Dolly" featured Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey, the actresses her father insisted she meet as a child — and that she did. Gilliam said that, as a toddler, she marched across the stage ...