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  1. Pearl Bailey. Actress: The Fox and the Hound. Her father Joseph was a minister and her mother was named Ella Mae. Her birth name was Pearly Mae but her parents anticipated she would be a boy and when a girl was born she was nicknamed "Dickie". Her brother was entertainer Bill Bailey (1912-1978).

  2. Aug 19, 1990 · Pearl Bailey, the entertainer whose distinctive singing style was enhanced by her mischievous witticisms and warm personality, died on Friday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in ...

  3. Aug 19, 1990 · PHILADELPHIA —. Pearl Bailey, the actress and singer with the sexy, throaty drawl and droll sense of humor who once was called America’s “ambassador of love,” died Friday at age 72. An ...

  4. Aug 18, 1990 · Pearl Bailey, the dynamic and irrepressible singer, actress and comedian whose throaty-voiced performance in "Hello Dolly!" was one of the monuments of the musical stage, died yesterday in ...

  5. Bailey, Pearl (1918–1990) African-American jazz singer, Tony Award-winning actress, author, and tireless campaigner for world peace who served as an American delegate to the United Nations. Born in Newport News, Virginia, on March 29, 1918; died on August 17, 1990; youngest of four children of Joseph James Bailey (an evangelical preacher) and ...

  6. Aug 18, 1990 · Entertainer Pearl Bailey, Enduring Star, Dies at 72. Pearl Bailey, the preacher’s daughter who sang and danced her way from Depression coal mining towns to Broadway and the hearts of...

  7. African-American entertainer Pearl Bailey gained fame for her work in Broadway, cabaret, and Hollywood as a vocalist, dancer and actress. Bailey's humorous, sultry, slurred delivery livened up many a standard, including "Baby It's Cold Outside" and her only hit, "Takes Two to Tango."

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