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.

Bailey was born in Newport News, Va. in 1917. In the 1930s, she moved to North Philadelphia’s 1946 N. 23rd Street — a blue ...

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 ...