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Pearl Bailey
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."
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Pearl Bailey
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peter Gunn | Mother (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 75% |
|
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% |
|
Norman... Is That You? | Beatrice Chambers (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 93% |
|
The Landlord | Marge (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway | Unknown (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet |
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All the Fine Young Cannibals | Ruby (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 71% |
|
Porgy and Bess | Maria (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 56% |
|
St. Louis Blues | Aunt Hagar (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Certain Feeling |
Augusta/ |
- | 1956 |
| 75% |
|
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 |