Pearl Mae Bailey, born in Virginia on March 29, 1918, was an American actress and singer. Bailey began by singing and dancing in Philadelphia’s black nightclubs in the 1930s, and soon started ...

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 ...

AAMP held a Pearl Bailey exhibition in the early 1990s, but without the scrapbooks. They’ve never been on display before this, but have been available to scholars upon request.