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Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey

Highest Rated: 93% The Landlord (1970)

Lowest Rated: 13% Isn't It Romantic? (1948)

Birthday: Mar 29, 1918

Birthplace: Newport News, Virginia, USA

This Broadway musical star was noted for her trademark song delivery in which she interrupted a number to make comic asides to the audience. Bailey began her career performing in amateur shows and as a band singer in vaudeville and cabarets where she was known at first as the younger sister of dancer Bill Bailey. By the mid-1940s, she had evolved her own unique style of delivery--a slyly sultry and husky drawl--and her superb comic timing which she displayed in her hit recording "Tired" and her show-stopping performance in the 1946 Broadway musical "St. Louis Woman."

Highest rated movies

93% The Landlord
75% Carmen Jones
71% Porgy and Bess
56% St. Louis Blues
40% Norman... Is That You?
13% Isn't It Romantic?

Photos

ST. LOUIS BLUES, Pearl Bailey, Juano Hernandez, 1957 CARMEN JONES, Pearl Bailey, 1954, TM & ©20th Century Fox. All rights reserved / CARMEN JONES, Pearl Bailey (seated left), Dorothy Dandridge (raised arm), Roy Glenn (rear), 1954, TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. carmenjones1954-fsct08(carmenjones1954-fsct08) CARMEN JONES, Roy Glenn, Pearl Bailey, Dorothy Dandridge, Nick Stewart, Diahann Carroll, 1954. TM & ©Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved. THAT CERTAIN FEELING, from left, Pearl Bailey, Eva Marie Saint, Jery Mathers, 1956 ST. LOUIS BLUES, Pearl Bailey, (center), 1957 THE LANDLORD, Pearl Bailey (right), 1970 THE LANDLORD, Pearl Bailey, Beau Bridges, 1970 VARIETY GIRL, Pearl Bailey, 1947 THE LANDLORD, Pearl Bailey, Lee Grant, 1970 THAT CERTAIN FEELING, Pearl Bailey, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, 1956 NORMAN...IS THAT YOU?, Dennis Dugan, Pearl Bailey, 1976 NORMAN...IS THAT YOU?, Pearl Bailey, Redd Foxx, 1976 NORMAN...IS THAT YOU?, Pearl Bailey, Redd Foxx, 1976 ALL THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS, Pearl Bailey, Robert Wagner, 1960
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peter Gunn Mother (Character) - 1989
75% 78% The Fox and the Hound Big Mama (Voice) $23.6M 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tubby the Tuba Mrs. Elephant (Voice) - 1977
40% 70% Norman... Is That You? Beatrice Chambers (Character) - 1976
93% 79% The Landlord Marge (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 46% All the Fine Young Cannibals Ruby (Character) - 1960
71% 78% Porgy and Bess Maria (Character) - 1959
56% 79% St. Louis Blues Aunt Hagar (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Certain Feeling Augusta/Gussie (Character) - 1956
75% 78% Carmen Jones Frankie (Character) - 1954
13% No Score Yet Isn't It Romantic? Addie (Character) - 1948

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Carol Burnett Show Guest 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Toast of the Town Music Performer 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Got a Secret Guest 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1955 1964 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Danny Kaye Show Guest 1964
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