When Tony Award winner and variety show host Pearl Bailey wasn’t enthralling audiences with her throaty voice and down home ...

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 ...

opening at the St. James Theatre on January 16, 1964. A few years later, Pearl Bailey played Dolly on that same stage and brought her own magical personality to the role. On March 16, 1969 ...