Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey was born on Mar 29, 1918 in USA. Pearl Bailey's big-screen debut came with Variety Girl directed by George Marshall in 1947. Pearl Bailey is known for The Fox and the Hound directed by Ted Berman, Mickey Rooney stars as Tod and Kurt Russell as Copper. Pearl Bailey has got 3 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Pearl Bailey achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Pearl Bailey plays is Christmas Child which will be released on Nov 09, 2004.

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). She spent her early life in Washington DC where she received her early education. Bailey frequently appeared in the Old Howard theater in downtown Washington. As a young woman she toured the Pennsylvania mining towns as a dancer and later as a singer in Vaudeville. She starred in the film St. Louis Blues opposite Nat King Cole, which was the biography of W.C. Handy. Her greatest theater role was in the Broadway musical "Hello Dolly".