Pearl Bailey Filmography

Born:: March 29, 1918 in Newport News, VA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Spirited black singer and actress of stage and screen, Bailey is the daughter of a preacher. She started her performing career at age 15 after winning an amateur contest, then went on to tour as a dancer appeaedr as a singer-dancer with various jazz bands. Her big break came with her debut on...Read More

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Best of the Andy Williams Show

Actors: Andy Williams

Synopsis: A retrospective of the acclaimed NBC variety series The Andy Williams Show. The show ran from 1962-1971, winning three Emmy awards for Best Variety Series and entertaining millions of viewers along the way. This video is a compilation of some of the greatest performances seen on the show Read More

1999
Cindy Eller

Synopsis: This is a modern-day retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Peter Gunn

Actors: Peter Jurasik, Peter Strauss, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Williams, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Peter Gunn was a one-shot TV movie revival of the classic detective series (1958-61) created by Blake Edwards. Edwards wrote and directed this pilot for a potential Gunn revival, with Peter Strauss stepping into Craig Stevens' gumshoes as private eye Peter Gunn. Peter Jurasik assumes Herschel Bernardi's Read More

1989
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Pearl Bailey, Melanie Mayron, Kelly Wolf, Jennifer Grey

Synopsis: This updated version of Cinderella is set in the New York of the 1980s. A very young Kyra Sedgwick stars as Cindy Eller, a shy and awkward teenager burdened with a seemingly insensitive stepmother and two attractive, trendy, and overbearing stepsisters (one of whom is played by Jennifer Grey!). Read More

1985
The Member of the Wedding

Synopsis: First adapted to film in 1952, Carson McCullers' play A Member of the Wedding was restaged for television in a live performance aired December 20, 1982. Dana Hill assumes the role created by Julie Harris back in 1950: Frankie Addams, an awkward 12-year-old girl who feels like a fifth wheel during Read More

1983
The Fox and the Hound

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a hunting dog named Copper. As Copper grows up, he learns that it is his job to hunt foxes. Tod's caretaker Widow Tweed takes Tod Read More

1981
The Muppet Show: Pearl Bailey

Actors: Pearl Bailey

Synopsis: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew comes up with yet another ingenious invention: edible paperclips. Meanwhile, guest star Pearl Bailey lends her talent to a variety of musical performances and skits. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Tubby the Tuba

Synopsis: A corpulent wind instrument finds excitement in this animated adaptation of a beloved children's story. The tale features the voices of Dick Van Dyke, Pearl Bailey, Jack Gilford and Hermoine Gingold. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Norman Is That You?

Actors: Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey, Dennis Dugan, Mike Warren, Tamara Dobson

Synopsis: After wife Beatrice (Pearl Bailey) runs off to Mexico, a despondent Ben Chambers (Redd Foxx) travels to California to visit his son, Norman (Michael Warren). To Ben's dismay, Norman admits that he's gay -- and that his lover is a white man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
The Last Generation

1971
Sentimental Journey

Synopsis: Count Basie, Maurice Chevalier, Patti Page, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan are among the stars featured in this television program. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1970
The Landlord

Actors: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Marki Bey, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. But once he ventures into the tenement, he grows quite fond of the low-income ethnic types who dwell within. He even kicks over the traces of his Read More

1970
Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway

Synopsis: On Broadway, featuring Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey, originally aired on ABC in 1969. Together they playfully perform some of their most popular hits as duets, including A Little Girl from Little Rock, Little Green Apples, If They Could See Me Now, and Won't You Come Home. Next they perform an Read More

1969
Johnny Carson

Synopsis: Highlights and outtakes from The Tonight Show make up the meat of this collection, which, for good measure, also tosses in some footage from Carson's early game show Who Do You Trust?. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
All the Fine Young Cannibals

Actors: Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey

Synopsis: Robert Wagner plays Chad Bixby, a role reportedly inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this romantic drama about two young couples linked by the out-of-wedlock baby spawned by Bixby and Salome Davis (Natalie Wood) before their current marriages. Pearl Bailey appears as a famous Read More

1960
Porgy and Bess

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

Synopsis: A stellar line-up of African-American actors and musical stars helped to bring DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's classic operetta to this screen in this lavishly-produced adaptation. Porgy (Sidney Poitier) is a crippled man living in the shantytown of Catfish Row who has fallen in love with Bess (Dorothy Dandridge Read More

1959
St. Louis Blues

Actors: Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt, Ruby Dee, Cab Calloway, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald

Synopsis: The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is highly dramatized in this tuneful biopic. The story opens as his father, a minister chastises his son for playing "the devil's music." Despite his father's admonitions, Handy is drawn to the blues. He is encouraged by two disparate women, one an earthy Read More

1958
That Certain Feeling

Actors: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey, David Lewis

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays Francis X. Dignan, the overly neurotic "ghost" for popular comic-strip artist Larry Larkin (George Sanders). When Larkin's syndicate complains that his work isn't as Read More

1956
Carmen Jones

Actors: Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll

Synopsis: In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones Read More

1954
Isn't It Romantic?

Actors: Veronica Lake, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher, Billy De Wolfe, Roland Culver

Synopsis: One of the more popular movie-review paperbacks sums up Paramount's Isn't it Romantic? with a terse "No." There's actually more to the film than that, but not much. Set in Indiana in the 1890s, the story revolves around an diehard Confederate soldier named Major Euclid Cameron (Rolan Culver), who Read More

1948
Variety Girl

Actors: Eric Alden, Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, DeForest Kelley, William Demarest, Joan Caulfield, Stanley Clements, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for Paramount Studios in 1947. Mary Hatcher plays Catherine Brown, a woman of humble origins who arrives in Hollywood, where she meets another wanna-be movie star, Amber La Vonne Read More

1947