Mar.29th: Happy birthday Jazz-Blues Singer / Stage-Screen Actress Pearl Mae Bailey (1918-1990) Grammy Hall of Fame, Special Tony Award, Daytime Emmy Award, Screen Actors guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thank you and God bless. RIP Icon. Thanks for the upload, TheJazzStreet. Blessings
Pearl was the only black actress of that era, that I know of, who, married a white man, and they lived happily ever after, at least until he died, and as far as i know, she didn't go broke, Dorothy Dandrige , Phyllis Hyman, Nina Simon and Josephine baker all married white men and went bankrupt