page_title: Pearl Bailey
section_title: Performances
hierarchical_section_title: Pearl Bailey / Performances
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Pearl Bailey with guest Perry Como on her short-lived television program, The Pearl Bailey Show.
context_page_description: Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
  Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952. She received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988.
context_section_description: Film
  Variety Girl (1947) – Pearl Bailey – Singer
  Isn't It Romantic? (1948) – Addie
  Carmen Jones (1954) – Frankie
  That Certain Feeling (1956) – Augusta aka Gussie
  St. Louis Blues (1958) – Aunt Hagar
  Porgy and Bess (1959) – Maria
  All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960) – Ruby
  The Landlord (1970) – Marge
  Tubby the Tuba (1975) – Mrs. Elephant (voice)
  Norman... Is That You? (1976) – Beatrice Chambers
  The Fox and the Hound (1981) – Big Mama – Owl (voice)
  Television
  The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (prior to 1960) – Herself
  The Andy Williams Show (1963) – Herself
  Mike and Pearl (1968) – Herself
  Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway (1969) – Herself
  The Pearl Bailey Show (1971) 
  (midseason replacement series) – Herself – Host / Singer
  The Carol Burnett Show (1972) – Guest Star
  One More Time (1974), a CBS musical comedy special
  with Carol Channing, George Burns and others – Herself
  The Love Boat (1977) – Millie Washington
  All-Star Salute to Pearl Bailey (1979) – Herself
  The Muppet Show (1979) – Herself
  The Member of the Wedding (1982) – Bernice Sadie Brown
  As the World Turns (cast member in 1982) – Herself
  Peter Gunn (1989) (unsold pilot) – Mother (final television appearance)
   
  Theater
  St. Louis Woman (1946) (Broadway)
  Arms and the Girl (1950) (Broadway)
  Bless You All (1950) (Broadway)
  House of Flowers (1954) (Broadway)
  Les Poupées de Paris (1962) (Off-Broadway) (voice only)
  Call Me Madam (1966) (Melodyland Theater)
  Hello, Dolly! (1967) 
   (Broadway and US national tour)
  Hello, Dolly! (1975) (Broadway)
caption: Perry Como and Pearl Bailey (1971)
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