Pearl Bailey and her husband Louie Bellson backstage at "House of Flowers" where she is starring in the show in New York City 01-22-1955

"Carmen Jones" Pearl Bailey 1954 20th Century Fox

Robert Wagner and Pearl Bailey in All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)

Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, and Carol Channing

Pearl Bailey in The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)

Pearl Bailey and Perry Como in Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1948)

Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Roy Glenn, and Nick Stewart in Carmen Jones (1954)

Pearl Bailey in All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)

Sidney Poitier, Ruth Attaway, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and Dorothy Dandridge in Porgy and Bess (1959)