When Tony Award winner and variety show host Pearl Bailey wasn’t enthralling audiences with her throaty voice and down-home charm, she must have been working on her scrapbooks. Bailey — who came of ...

Pearl Mae Bailey, born in Virginia on March 29 ... Also that year, she played the role of "Aunt Hagar" in the movie St. Louis Blues, alongside Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, and Nat King Cole.

"On Broadway" featured Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey, both red hot after their respective runs in the smash hit "Hello, Dolly!" on Broadway. The special was filmed on the stage of the ...