Bailey returned to Philadelphia from her home in Lake Havasu, Ariz., in 1990 on Annenberg’s advice to have her knees replaced at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. While recovering at the ...

Wilson, Ph.D., the Pearl Bailey Showcase features a collection of ... The display was organized by the Halsey Institute of ...

Pearl Mae Bailey was born March 29 th, 1918 and died on August 17 th, 1990. When she was 15 years old Pearl took first prize singing a song at an amateur contest held at the Pearl Theatre in ...

In 1991, Bailey’s husband of 38 years, Louis Bellson, gifted more than 30 of her scrapbooks to the African American Museum in Philadelphia. (Georgetown University, where Bailey earned a bachelor ...