When Tony Award winner and variety show host Pearl Bailey wasn’t enthralling audiences with her throaty voice and down-home charm, she must have been working on her scrapbooks. Bailey — who came of ...

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Pearl BAILEY; Posed studio portrait of Pearl Bailey (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns) (Gilles Petard, Getty Images 2025) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – To call Pearl Bailey ...

The African American Museum in Philadelphia newest exhibition features scrapbook collages that were hand-crafted by award-winning actress, singer, songwriter, and author, Pearl Bailey. Debuting during ...

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 ...